12. Polygamy Is Required To Get Into Heaven
Not everyone is necessarily super-stoked about practicing polygamy. However, it is a required part of being inside of these communities. One purpose of having plural wives was to be able to populate the Earth much more easily and quickly. While this is definitely a proven method, it appears that humans have been doing a pretty decent job of filling up the Earth with people by staying in monogamous relationships.
However, claims from leaders like Joseph Smith were that the idea that men need plural wives were revelations sent by God, so the followers of his religion have adopted this practice and made it crucial to their lives in order to make it into heaven. Polygamists believe that only women who have sister wives and men who have more than one wife get into heaven. The scariest part is that the first wife is supposed to give permission to the husband to be allowed to marry multiple women. But if the first wife doesn’t give this permission, she’ll be “destroyed by God.”
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