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00:02:00.580Not only in the practice of polygyny itself, but in the greater framework of biblical patriarchy, the God-ordained structure of relationship that safeguards marriages, families, and ultimately society.
00:02:11.420The biblical patriarchy founded on male headship, provisions, and protections stand as a single most important aspect of safe and flourishing marriages in the West.
00:02:20.960It provides the structure within which celibacy, monogamy, and polygyny can coexist as divinely ordained practices reinforcing stability, moral responsibility, and justice.
00:02:32.740In this debate, I will take the position, or Robin, I will take the position that polygyny is morally acceptable according to the Bible and does not constitute sin.
00:02:41.740Far from being contradictory to biblical values, it complements and reinforces the principles of biblical patriarchy alongside celibacy and monogamy.
00:02:52.540Together, these practices create a flexible and enduring system capable of addressing the crisis of marriage and families in the West.
00:03:01.240At its heart, biblical patriarchy calls men to lead their families as Christ leads the ecclesia, or congregation, according to Ephesians 5, with fractificial love, unwavering commitment, and moral responsibility.
00:03:16.760It assigns complementary roles to men and women, ensuring that the family structure is built on mutual respect and care.
00:03:22.700In a time when Western marriage is fractured by instability, gender confusion, and economic pressure, biblical patriarchy restores order and purpose.
00:03:33.460Celibacy provides an opportunity for men to focus entirely on spiritual leadership, community service, and advancing the kingdom of God, as exemplified by Apostle Paul.
00:03:42.560Now, I want to say, when I first thought about polygamy, right, obviously coming from the West, it's very taboo.
00:03:50.980It's very taboo. Nobody really, it's kind of weird, right?
00:03:55.020And it's really thought of as a Muslim thing.
00:03:58.220But the more I've lived life, I've realized that we're already in polygamy.
00:04:03.940If you take the rate that people cheat within married relationships, you know, up to 50% some day, some say, as little as 25%, that's partially polygamy.
00:04:16.900If the woman's married to one guy, cheating with the personal trainer.
00:04:20.980On top of that, you know, monogamy used to be one person for life.
00:04:25.340So if you have a first wife and a second wife, okay, I guess maybe it's a little different because the guy's not dating them or married to them at the same time.
00:04:34.720But the way they would see it in the East is that we do essentially the same thing.
00:04:42.460We just kind of do it at different periods in our life.
00:04:46.720Patriarchal principles that true leadership flows from submission to God.
00:04:50.400Monogamy allows men to exercise focuses, leadership, and care for a single family, deepening the intimacy and trust.
00:04:58.600It mirrors Christ's covenantal love for his ecclesia, as stated in Ephesians earlier.
00:05:04.800Religion, on its turn, magnifies male responsibility by requiring greater leadership, provisions, and fairness.
00:05:12.360It underscores the patriarch's role as a just and sacrificial leader and seen in Deuteronomy 21, regulated by Exodus 21,
00:05:21.160accidentally established by Deuteronomy 25, and understood in terms of Leviticus 20, read together with Deuteronomy 22.
00:05:28.480Now, biblical patriarchal not only reinforces these practices, but also ensures that they work together to benefit men, women, children, and society at large.
00:05:38.740Now, if we look at the Bible, it's clear that polygyny is not sinful.
00:05:45.960Instead, it is presented as a permissible marital arrangement within God's covenantal framework.
00:05:53.680Throughout the Old Testament, we see this patriarchs, such as Abraham, Jacob, David.
00:05:58.480And in the New Testament, it may be argued that monogamy is elevated as an ideal, particularly in the leadership context, but polygyny is never condemned.
00:06:08.080In fact, Paul is clear that celibacy is an ideal.
00:06:11.980Jesus Christ teaches on marriage in Matthew 20, 19, that emphasizes the sanctity of marriage and condemns setting aside, but does not address polygyny.
00:06:21.320Paul instructs in 1 Timothy 3, 2, that church leaders should be husband of one wife.
00:06:26.320Could be argued as qualification for leadership, but not a universal prohibition of polygyny.
00:06:32.680Although this position is highly contentious amongst Greek scholars, however, the silence of the New Testament on condemning polygyny suggests that there are no condemnation of polygyny suggests that it remains a moral neutral under the covenant.
00:06:46.400Now, critics often reject polygyny based on cultural norms rather than biblical evidence.
00:06:52.320So I was thinking of this as a thought experiment.
00:07:10.540I'm not, by the way, this is not me cosigning it or pushing it.
00:07:16.580I was just thinking about it in the second way, the woman, if, if they had a child or even just in general is taken care of for life where, you know, in the first one, you're kind of shit out of luck.
00:07:32.060I'm not saying that the ladies deserve lifelong being taken care of, but I was thinking about it as a thought experiment.
00:08:13.740Ideal celibacy is the ideal reinforcement for foundation of biblical patriarchy.
00:08:18.820Monogamy serves as a powerful expression of biblical patriarchy by mirroring the covenantal love between Christ and Ecclesia.
00:08:25.300Belligiety, while not commanded, but may be incidentally established as a biblical permissible practice that magnifies male responsibility and care.
00:08:35.380And closure as Western society faces a crisis in marriage.
00:08:38.900Biblical patriarchy provides the solution.
00:08:42.180It elevates celibacy as the highest ideal.
00:08:46.960And belligyny as a permissible and practical alternative.
00:08:50.580Together, these practices reinforces the principles of leadership, provision, and justice that protects families and builds strong communities according to the provisions of the scripture.
00:08:59.900Belligyny, when practiced within the framework of biblical patriarchy, is not only morally acceptable, but also reflects God's wisdom in accommodating diverse needs across cultures.
00:09:10.440When you think about it, this argument, this whole debate is, what do we do with all of these women?
00:09:15.580You know, they say, okay, maybe we could go back to forcing them to get married.
00:19:35.340Now, what we have now is all three of these ladies are going towards the hot guy.
00:19:43.080You know, before the guy in the middle might've been the hottest guy in the town.
00:19:48.900This woman here, well, it would have been illegal for them to be together, but you know, for the sake of it, this woman over here, she wouldn't know this guy existed.
00:20:00.220She doesn't even know what she's missing.
00:20:01.500So this guy asks her to marry her and she doesn't think about the DM she got from Chad over here.
00:21:19.920They, they think that we should just force arranged marriage or no deal.
00:21:24.920But something about me, I just, I mean, I just, for me personally, I don't know if I'd want to be with someone that doesn't want to be with me.
00:21:36.040And the other challenge is, you know, it's not like social media is going anywhere.
00:21:40.740So she's still going to be seeing Chad and feeling like this guy isn't enough.
00:21:46.200Now, the reason I say this, that we don't force the arranged marriage, is because this guy is going to have such a miserable life being with this woman that doesn't want to be with him.
00:21:56.600I mean, he, it's better he's by himself.
00:22:00.080That's why, you know, the MGTOW guys, they make perfect sense.
00:24:35.860Major problem with political instability in these countries.
00:24:39.980If most families can't get by, by the way, on one income with only one wife and 1.6 kids, how many men can afford multiple wives and many children?
00:24:51.160Yeah, okay, so then he makes the argument that the men can't afford the wives, and I actually thought this was a moot point, and I'll tell you why.
00:25:17.100The men can actually, you know, they said, you know, the men got together and they said, ladies, they said to this hot woman over here, be a mother.
00:29:10.720The money argument to me, there's too many women that don't want to have kids where they could be a second, third wife, hypothetically, and just not have children.
00:29:21.080I mean, that's kind of what we're doing in the soft polygamy era anyway.
00:29:25.180Children from polygamous families report higher rates of aggression, behavioral problems likely to be less competitive, confusion with parental roles.
00:29:34.140Wives end up with more mental health problems for unequal treatment.
00:29:37.320Now, he's saying the wives are going to end up with mental health problems.
00:29:41.300Well, I mean, one in four women are on SSRIs in the United States.
00:29:47.300We have mental health problems anyway.
00:38:52.780It just seems like it's a movement towards the pleasure of the flesh.
00:38:55.740It also has another problem as well, which is that it would basically be promoting promiscuity if it did work by adding an additional societal safeguard to promiscuous women, essentially assuring them a husband, as long as she acted as a fuck puppet for him.
00:39:08.100Which isn't very different from how secular women already act outside of Christian ethics.
00:39:12.680In fact, there's so many problems with the arguments that he made that I can barely scratch the surface.
00:39:18.900But I think that this is good for right now and we can just move right into the debate.
00:39:23.880I just want to let both of you guys know right now.
00:39:25.940I went in depth into all of your positions and this debate is not going to go well for either of you.
00:41:41.860If the argument for you is this country got overthrown by the power of polygyny, my counterargument is, well, this country got overthrown and we weren't polygynous.
00:41:51.520So clearly them just being polygynous has zero to do with the overthrow.
00:58:32.980The same way if men had, you know, Margot Robbie in her prime banging on their door and you said, please, men, stop having sex with these super hot women out of your league.
01:02:33.080If men were the ones waiting to get married, then you would see the men marrying young women.
01:02:39.420You know, you would see 40-year-old men with 20-year-old women or 25-year-old women because men are attracted to youth and beauty, right?
01:02:47.680But because we see the females' age of first marriage going up, that tells me that it's the women that don't want to get married, not the men.
01:03:05.820It's because inside the Western nations, the United States government is notorious for this, but so is the Australian government.
01:03:12.720So is most of the North American and Western European governments.
01:03:16.100What they do is they have a mass campaign that they started in the 1980s where they taught women to value education over reproductive years.
01:03:28.140They taught the women to value education.
01:03:30.900If women cared about education, if we cared about getting smart in our careers, we would be picking careers that make a lot of money or degrees that teach you a lot, not gender studies, not these, you know, sociology degrees where you're really doing nothing, right?
01:03:51.320Women enjoy the excitement of going to college, right?
01:05:24.460It's the women getting the free parties, going to part, like the bars, it's, um, getting a cushy job, you know, drinks after we're all, all of the fun stuff.
01:05:36.760You're essentially worshipped as a woman with Instagram, right?
01:05:40.120All these people worshipping you, all these fun opportunities.
01:05:43.580And demonstrated that in every single Western nation where women value education over their reproductive years,
01:05:51.080the birth rate goes straight down and marriage ends up happening later in life.
01:07:04.440Let me tell you what, if a woman's sleeping with a man, there's about nine times out of 10, she wants to marry that man and she will marry that man.
01:07:17.720One of the most common complaints I've gotten from guys is that the women want to have sex with them.
01:07:22.800You know, there's one, I asked a guy friend of mine who like, I don't know, he's, he would say like, maybe one out of 10 women want a relationship, maybe.