Whether it is ethnic, cultural, or religious, strict monogamy is responsible for miscegenation. Biblical polygyny would wipe out this sad phenomenon virtually over night. Amazingly, those who complain loudest about miscegenation complain just as loudly about polygamy.
Here is how it works. Lower class males are always anxious to marry higher class women. They get a smarter, future oriented wife, who is less likely to cheat on them. She is more likely to bear and raise superior children and make him look good. If the male is a Mohammedan, once he has sired several children, he can easily forsake his wife and bring the children to his home country to make sure they are raised in an Mohammedan culture. Historically, offspring of captive Christian women have been the only life this moribund religion has been able to muster.
Why would any woman want to marry a lower class male? Because of the lack of “available” men from her own class, religion, culture, and ethnicity. This is an artificial problem of course. Strict monogamy is neither supported by Scripture nor by experience. None of the good men in any culture are “taken”; they are all available according to Biblical Law, as Tom Shipley’s book show. Only when a culture dabbles with suicide does it force its women into the arms of foreigners.
But what about the historical record? Haven’t we done just fine for most of church history without Biblical polygyny?
Not really. In fact, Western culture has made very little progress in sanctification. We still discount huge portions of Biblical Law. With VanTil and Rushdoony we are just beginning to recover what the church had before becoming encrusted with heresies. For instance, we have a near zero concept of the Biblical calendar, it’s feast days, the 7th year sabbath, the jubilee year, and the Sabbath. God’s order for time has huge implications for every area of life. But this, like many other areas of Biblical Law, has been completely lost since the earliest days of church history. No, we have a long, long way to go.
True, as long as nations did not invite invasion we kept spare women in spinster/nunnery conditions – conditions foreign to Scripture which is completely family oriented.
As godly men recover Biblical Law we will also recover Biblical marriage and be rid of feminism and injustice to women. Until then we force miscegenation by having women compelled into the arms of Uncle Sam, foreigners, effeminate, Mohammedans, and lower class men.
“Choose life that you and your children may live.”