DO WE STILL HAVE A PLACE FOR POLYGAMY IN TODAYS WORLD? Polygamy, the practice of numerous marriages, has been around for thousands of years. Although very popular in Africa, the Far East and in Islamic countries, it is frowned upon by the majority of the world's countries. It has, in the last couple of centuries, been prohibited by countries like Hong Kong, China, and Thailand. The general accord is that polygamy is morally wrong as it infringes many religious convictions And to the non-religious personalities it just feels incorrect. In an important sense, making the non-religious case against polygamy was not anything new for the Western custom. Already the early Greeks and Romans, prior to the dawn of Christianity, had prohibited polygamy for basis of nature, friendship, domestic effectiveness, political convenience, and more. These non-religious points of view always remained at the establishment of the continuing Western case against polygamy. The vic
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