Part 1 What is behind Christianity banning polygamy before some Muslim states? The primary reason Christianity banned polygamy long before Muslim states is not actually rooted in the Bible, but rather in the pre-existing pagan laws of ancient Greece and Rome, where Christianity first developed. [1, 2] When Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, it absorbed the strict Greco-Roman legal tradition of socially imposed monogamy . In contrast, Islam originated in the Arabian Peninsula, a region where polygamy was a deeply rooted tribal tradition that the Quran chose to regulate and restrict rather than entirely eliminate. [1, 3, 4, 5, 6] 1. The Greco-Roman Cultural Legacy (The Main Driver) Centuries before Jesus was born, ancient Greece and Rome had already outlawed polygamy. [3] The Roman Law: To Romans, marrying multiple wives was viewed as a "barbarian" practice. A Roman citizen could legally have only one wife at a time . T...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51