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Poly Practised Elsewhere

Keith Martin said:
This link apparently expired.
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Thanks for the heads up. I have been curious how long it would take before one or several links got taken down. That was the 4th link I posted near the beginning of this thread back in May. You might already know this... but one reason it may have been taken down is because in some cases in poorer countries internet users pay according to the amount of data coming and going from their server. Due to me posting these links here, some website owners may think a particular webpage is generating too much traffic and it's costing them too much. In addition, mapping tools are available to see from where in the world page requests are coming from. Then it can be decided if the advertising on a particular page is relevant to the people seeking access. As well, with that knowledge, website owners can further decide if it's worth keeping their maybe not so up to date system busy with so many access requests. I won't be surprised if in time some other links also don't work. This may serve as a notice for anyone who wants to save a copy of a particular article; sooner rather than later might be a good idea. Again, thanks Keith.
 
Frank S said:
Thanks for the heads up. I have been curious how long it would take before one or several links got taken down. That was the 4th link I posted near the beginning of this thread back in May. You might already know this... but one reason it may have been taken down is because in some cases in poorer countries internet users pay according to the amount of data coming and going from their server. Due to me posting these links here, some website owners may think a particular webpage is generating too much traffic and it's costing them too much. In addition, mapping tools are available to see from where in the world page requests are coming from. Then it can be decided if the advertising on a particular page is relevant to the people seeking access. As well, with that knowledge, website owners can further decide if it's worth keeping their maybe not so up to date system busy with so many access requests. I won't be surprised if in time some other links also don't work. This may serve as a notice for anyone who wants to save a copy of a particular article; sooner rather than later might be a good idea. Again, thanks Keith.
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It's also the case that I was mistakenly back on page 6 or something, thinking I was on page 23, so it serves me right that the link had expired by the time I got around to it! Thank you, Frank.
 
Frank S said:
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/i-do-not-marry-married-man
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No sooner had Makheabichtichiou shown himself a good Christian in so many ways than the Jesuits’ hopes started to unravel. He agreed to everything they wanted—with one critical exception. He “kept all the commandments, except that one about having only one wife.” His obdurate refusal to renounce his three wives prevented his baptism and, in Jesuit eyes, rendered the whole mission a failure. It was a crushing blow, experienced repeatedly in the colonial period. Across numerous locations in colonial America, as we have seen, missionaries kept meeting powerful Native men who professed belief in Christ and his church yet who would not give up polygyny. Such “gave us all some trouble,” as Le Jeune later phrased it.
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Doctrine of demons indeed.

Since I have been preaching…that a man should have only one wife I have not been well received by the women; for, since they are more numerous than the men, if a man can only marry one of them, the others will have to suffer. Therefore this doctrine is not according to their liking.
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In the RCC world they had nunneries, so this wouldn't seem like much injustice to the missionaries. And since priests had a long history of taking advantages of the 'services' nuns offered, they had no little motive to disenfranchise from marriage oodles of women.
 
https://www.cuw.edu/academics/schoo...assets/theological-journal/v3i1-Fall_2015.pdf

This document contains 82 notable quotations from Luther on polygamy arranged by date. Some of these quotes can otherwise be difficult to find in English as not all he wrote has been translated from German. The quotations show he was at times rather conflicted by polygamy. It may be good to keep this document as a reference resource.
 
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