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Dec 12 19:36 UTC 2003

Muslims worship the same God jews and Christians do.  It just that they have
teh "particulars" wrong.  The same God the Mormons do, but they have the
"particulars" wrong.

Forget religion.  For most of human history, people have practiced a one man,
one woman relationship.  A Nuclear family, if you will.

That doesn't mean people have not strayed.
That doesn't mean some nations haven't allowed multiple marriages.
That doesn't discount the harems.
That doesn't discount prostitution.

But the majority of human societies have practiced one on one relationships.
Nature built us that way, that is why we get jealous, thats why men commit
some murders.  Because an uncontrolable age seeks to remove those who cheat
on them.  (women do this as well)

It is a lot deeper in us than religion creates.  It is rather something that
religion tries to control, to regulate, to codify.  So people who are to dumb
to see the reality in society have a place where they can be instructed in
how the society expects them to behave.

God, or nature (if you prefer) made us want to be monogomous.