Reply #18: The Huns also practiced polyandry. [View All]

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As do some polynesian primitive tribes.

Some Native American tribes did not even acknowlege the paternal father of children. That role was played by the mother's brother. The history of human culture contains more variation and diversity than the human mind seems capable of accepting.

The first duty of religion seems to be to narrow human experience down to as few varibles and events as possible, for there must be something in the psyche that says if it never happened before, then it must be wrong. This is the way religion practices mind control, but passes itself off as spirituality, when instead it is a form of government instilled in people while their psyches are still forming, so that our brains are permanently warped. It amazes me how many people who would consider themselves agnostic or otherwise enlightened only go so far back as the old testament, and only so far afield as the middle east, when talking about ancient human cultures and customs. Shows just how strong and overarching the power of organized religion really is, even upon those who would deny it's influence on them.