5. The Trouble with Polygamy

World Scripture

Whoever has many wives will have troubles in surfeit. He will be deceitful, he will lie, he will betray to have them together; It is not certain that he can have peace to pray well.
Yoruba Poem (African Traditional Religions)

You will not be able to deal equally between your wives, however much you wish to do so.²⁴
Qur’an 4.129

The possession of many wives undermines a man’s moral nature.
Srimad Bhagavatam 11.3 (Hinduism)

Teachings of Sun Myung Moon

When a woman marries a man, should she have relationships with only one man, or with hundreds? There must be only one man in her life. Why only one? It is for true love. In order to achieve absolute true love, we marry only one person.
(122:234, November 14, 1982)

There is only one person in the universe whom you are meant to marry. Therefore, consider that you and your spouse are the only two people in the universe. You should abide in that first love, which only one man and one woman can share. Then God will abide with you.
(265:251, November 23, 1994)