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Mime Through Time by SketchSHE
Do me a favor and wait right there, ladies, while I go find a jewelry store. 3 rings for 3 wives. Is it bigamy or big of me?
How I Became an Atheist
On a serious note though, my dad left when I was 5.
We went to a plan where my sister and I would go see him every weekend, saturday afternoon-sunday night.
Now, he didn't get much time to see us and he liked to sleep in, so we basically didn't go to church.
From there, my mom raised us on the notion "You don't have to be in church to believe in god." So I was never truly hardcore religious.
Having never really been read anything from the bible, I guess I just decided to start using my own head about how things worked.
The nail in the coffin for me was prettymuch the same as him, one day, I started thinking about the premise of hell.
The point he made was one I was thinking of, If I make it in to heaven, but my family doesn't, I'll be in my own version of hell. Would a kind forgiving god allow that? Would he allow any of his followers/creatures to suffer in the first place?
Then.. What happens if you marry someone when you're in your 20s.. they die in your 30s, and you re-marry when you're in your 40s?
When you get to heaven.. what happens? Bigamy isn't allowed, so do you have to choose? what if you don't want to break one of your wives hearts, do you get kicked out of heaven?
There's just too much that has no answers, and never will.
Polygamy in the USA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy#Legal_situation
There are a lot of rarely-enforced local laws against bigamy, polygamy, "unlawful cohabitation", "adultery", etc., which could be used to prosecute polygamists.
Of course consenting adults in private should be allowed to do whatever they want to each other. The government does not need to be in the business of recognizing or not recognizing marriages. To paraphrase J.S. Mill, actions which can be legitimately prohibited are a subset of those actions which harm nonconsenting people.