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Sure, but "free love or a polyamory" isn't sanctioned in the Bible, which is what that quote was about, in the context of But for centuries in Europe, and I'm making the comment equivalent of an eyeroll for treating "Europe" as equivalent to "Christian Europe." Here's what I think is the Milton reference, https://archive.org/details/atreatiseonchri00miltgoog/page/n... . > or it is said, Deut. xxiii. 2. a bastard shall not enter into the congregation qf Jehovah, even to his tenth generation. Either therefore polygamy is a true marriage,* or all children born in that state are spurious; which would include the whole race of Jacob, the twelve holy tribes chosen by God. But as such an assertion would be absurd in the extreme, not to say impious, and as it is the height of injustice, as well as an example of most dangerous tendency in religion, to account as sin what is not such in reality;" His more in-depth discussion starts at https://archive.org/details/atreatiseonchri00miltgoog/page/n... , investigating each of the relevant verses from the Bible which the Church used to inform its prohibition. (Note that while Milton died in 1674, the manuscript wasn't found until 1823, well after "Free love was invented in 1792".) There isn't much about "his German contemporary Johann Leyser" in English, though I've verified that he was a public proponent of polygamy by reading the German Wikipedia entry at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Leyser . Further, "Western Polygamy? Some Reflections on Witte’s new book" By Rafael Domingo at https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/55608020/Wittes_On_Pol... comments: > Witte analyzes the writings of John Milton, Gilbert Burnet, Johann Leyser, Martin Madan, and others who argued that the Bible allowed for polygamy alongside monogamy. These are not free love nor polyamory. |