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Poly Practised Elsewhere

I mean everyone assumes that being a co-wife or second wife to a man is something a desperate woman does.
A woman who is desperate for money, a social upgrade, or better yet desperate to have a man, and any man will do, even one who is already taken.
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It would seem there are many women who fit that description.

Basically, polygamy is demonized especially amongst educated women because no one can understand why any self-respecting woman would accept second-wife status.
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But in truth, I don't see why the second women is considered lower status. I don't view them that way. And frankly, I'm pickier about who I take as a second than I was of the first.
 
rockfox said:
And frankly, I'm pickier about who I take as a second than I was of the first.
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Yes. There is more wisdom now that we've grown in our understanding of the word of God and we also see the spiritual growth (or lack there of) in any potential new wife and can make better decisions.
Frank S said:
Might be a good idea to beware of a poly-minded woman who thinks like this. She doesn't strike me as being much of a help-mate.
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Exactly!
 
@HisSilver wrote: "Who are the two people giving the argument? This is apparently an old script, though containing the inadequate pro-monogamy arguments Christians still employ."

Good question and comment!

The two in the argument are the author Bernardino, Ochino, and a person he made up to argue against named Telypoligamus. Yes, the arguments are old which gives an idea of how rooted in history some such arguments are. However, at the time it was written Ochino's document was viewed as defending polygamy. Here is a quote form Wikipedia in that regard:

"In 1563 a long simmering storm burst on Ochino with the publication of his Thirty Dialogues, in one of which his adversaries maintained that he had justified polygamy under the disguise of a pretended refutation. His dialogues on divorce and against the Trinity were also considered heretical."

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardino_Ochino

I believe this gives some historical background to the arguments we are dealing with today. Yes, it it may seem to us his writing was not supporting poly as it should. But what he did write was sufficiently pro-poly it got him in big trouble. There is a lot more that could be said about Ochino. What I've been able to find on him is that he was actually pro-poly - and suffered for it.
 
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"The United African Methodist Church Eleja was the fourth nationalistic church among the Yoruba people. Its
founding was premised upon Rev. D.H. Loko’s opposition to polygamy and the demonstration of this by threatening to
indict and expel ten well-known polygamists. He carried this out through the support of Rev. G.O. Griffin who was the
chairman of the Lagos District. He called out the names of these ten polygamists and pronounced them expelled from the church. Immediately, fifty five self confessed polygamists associated with these ten and asked that they too be judged.
The reverend instantly expelled them as well making a total of sixty-five polygamists expelled at once. These people
decided to establish a separate church ungoverned and uncontrolled by any foreign missionary body to serve God “in
spirit and in truth”. Just a month after the expulsion, The United African Methodist Church was founded and its first
service held on the 28th of December, 1917. The appellation Eleja (fishermen or fish mongers) was added first to signify
that Christians are fishers of men and second when they relocated the church to a building adjoining the fish market
(Ayégbóyìn, D. and Ìshola, S. A. 1997)."

Above excerpt is from:
https://www.mcser.org/journal/index.php/mjss/article/download/344/360
 
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