SUMMARY:
In a culture obsessed with monogamy but plagued by relational collapse, Kilian’s piercing new article, “Elon Musk Isn’t the Problem—Our Marriage Myths Are,” offers a theological and cultural reset.This is not a defense of Musk—it’s a defense of clarity. With scriptural weight, historical insight, and psychological acuity, Kilian exposes how critics like Lyman Stone conflate celebrity reproduction with sacred polygyny, collapsing covenant into caricature.
The article draws sharp distinctions between Musk’s technocratic fatherhood and Torah’s model of plural marriage rooted in provision, responsibility, and covenantal law. It dismantles the myth that polygyny is inherently harmful, revealing how most modern critiques rely on colonial assumptions, flawed data, and moral panic rather than real theology or social science.
From ancient Israel to South African pluralism, Kilian argues that it’s not polygyny that’s broken—it’s the legal and cultural system that refuses to understand it. What Stone calls a “dead end” is, in truth, a forgotten path to family restoration—if rightly ordered under God’s law.
This article is more than a rebuttal. It’s a summons: to rethink marriage, to recover covenant, and to stop mistaking cultural conformity for moral truth.
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ELON MUSK ISN’T THE PROBLEM—OUR MARRIAGE MYTHS ARE