Polygamy, Monogamy, Same Sex Marriage & The Church Today
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This is a short over view on the marriage doctrine as perceived by men and women from all walks of life. The story looks at the conservative aspects of culture against the current perception of "the way of living". It dares the world to come to its own grip of control lest the human kind perish from its own rules and acceptances. Without condemnation, it looks at reality as it were from the past.
Will Anthony, Jr
Will Anthony Jr. is currently the Chairman of the Uasin Gishu County Land Control Board which caters for over one million people. Before this stint, he worked in other capacities with the National government. He has also been lecturer in three religious institutions, a service to the youth to gather knowledge from the aging population. In his life time, Will Anthony Jr. says he has met a lot of people and can unflinchingly say that he loved most of them. Why most of them? Well, it is a tall order to love everyone you meet! Will Anthony Jr. has written several e-books touching on diverse subjects that relate to society. The books extensively cover human social and economic practices and this is so because expertise in one field in Africa can become a drudgery according to his practical view. His perception is that if you were born in Africa and the continent is your aboriginal home, you are likely to have English as your second language (ESL). Sometimes it could even be a third language. For him, he had to learn his mother tongue then learn both English and Swahili simultaneously. He went to his pre-primary bare foot, later he joined the local primary school 5 Km away and had to trek barefoot again not because his parents could not buy him shoes but because cobblers were a rare find. That journey was a daily toil of 10 Km, 5 days in a week or ~270 days yearly for 7 years. With a smirk he says that when you achieve a PhD in Africa, then You have done Plenty of hard Digging (PhD) or you have a Permanent head Damage (PhD) and you might end up in a ditch because your IQ cannot contain the booze like the local fellas!"Why did the English colonize Africa?" To keep the African languages in Czech (check), and he says that one must forgive this pun. But besides the pun, English has broken both social and economic barriers of the once "dark continent" whose forefathers slaved the white farms and firms to lace the pockets of their Lords.A PhD holder in Africa will still practice other 'trades' though they maybe 'very' learned because poverty is shameless, one has to draw bounds through plenty of smart work or else, it will be a shame to steal so as to maintain class.He published a book in 1992, but the publisher coned him , he took her to court and the case aged in judicial corridors for 12 years. He then made a decision to abandon the matter and to forget about writing books. However, Self publishing made him to change that decision. More than anything, He salutes Smashwords Inc. for the platform.In retrospect, He recalls a Dr. Alfred Sam, a friend of his from North America who was also a dean of studies in a local university, exposing his white ass in the university's auditorium to catch attention. The noise ceased as students and lecturers turned to look at the grown-up man on the podium doing the abominable. Well, the good Dr. in anthropology then simply pulled up his trousers buckled the belt and said, "Thank You, now I have your attention..."For the sake of simplicity, without much display of academia, Will Anthony Jr. is a writer in the global village market . For this, he Salutes all his readers and all lovers of written work. In a word of caution, he says that men and women alike must bear. In reference, there is an Ibo saying that every market place has it's mad people who will attempt to mar the business of the seemingly sane people. On the other hand, the English say everyone is mad, it's only the degree madness that is at variance. Salutes most profoundly!
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Polygamy, Monogamy, Same Sex Marriage & The Church Today - Will Anthony, Jr
Polygamy, Monogamy,
Same Sex Marriage &
The Church Today
Will Anthony Jr.
Copyright 2013
Smashwords Edition
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ISBN: 978147614071
Title: Polygamy, Monogamy, Same sex Marriage & the Church Today
PUBLISHER: Smashwords, Inc
Any characters in this book save for the historical persons are fictitious and any other resemblance to any living or dead is coincidental
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Polygyny and the Christian doctrines
Over View of polygyny
Resilience of Polygyny
God’s Plans
Polygyny Propose
Conclusion
About the Author
PREFACE
POLYGAMY is the act of having more than one spouse at a time. Polygyny is a subset of polygamy as is polyandry. Polygyny is one man having more than one wife at a time. Polyandry on the other hand is a woman having more than one husband at a time. I will try to dwell on the matter of Polygyny considering that quite a number of people in the world have been born in polygyneous environment. Quite a number are actually products of this form of social arrangement. Men have been the most at war mongering in the world; they have also been the people who fought in these wars. They engaged in dangerous occupations that have sometimes rendered several of them dead. Women have been home keepers. In times of war men were killed and women kept and shared out as part of the spoils by invaders. Polygyny therefore is as old as the beginning of the human civilization. There are great reasons for Polygyny. The other matter that I will be raising concerns same sex marriage against polygyny and monogamy.
Polygyny in sub-Saharan Africa for example, is not only a type of marriage but also a value system. However, its prevalence as a type of marriage has declined substantially in recent years where land tenure systems has moved from social/community ownership to private tenancy; and commercial livestock breeding has also taken place as one of the basic economic activities. This change in lifestyle has reduced the importance of the participation of female and children laborers. In the end, this has reduced the reason to have multiple wives.
In the sub-Sahara region, polygyny as a value system has been commendably resistant to the competition of the imported ideology of monogamy and to the impacts of various structural changes (e.g., the evolution from subsistence to a monetary economy, education system, urbanization and modern governance).
Comparatively, same sex marriage seem to be slowly gaining its way into the formerly conservative African society with less resistance from religious, social and political quarters. Some African countries have been forced to recognize same sex unions or loose their international aid. The late Bishop Alexander Muge of the Eldoret See (Anglican Church Of Kenya) told a story to his congregation once after a visit to the United States of America how he was asked to support gay marriage and in return receive monumental financial support for his see. He refused and stated clearly that his was God’s work which did not support same sex marriage. It was in the same season that he died in a mysterious road accident. If every man and woman had complete right of choice, I believe there would be no world to live in.
© WILSON MAIYO (2012)
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