If you look at things from another direction, CSG, one of the great things about the Bible is that the people in it are presented warts and all. Imagine the audacity of the Israelites. They recorded, right there in their holiest book, the fact that their greatest king, David, coveted another man's wife. David married Bathsheba because he was able to station her husband, Uriah the Hittite, in the thickest part of the battle, in effect murdering him. What happened next is the important part: David's actions were rebuked and punished--this was the divinely anointed absolute ruler of Israel, mind you--and even more astoundingly, the incident wasn't censored out of the Bible. It's one of the aspects of the Good Book that makes me even more respectful about it. It's a vast jumble of a book that has more questions than answers, more sinners than saints, and thus more to say to me and a bunch of others. I'm not a fundamentalist, by the way; I don't believe that every word must be taken literally. But if the David story is even an approximation of the historical events of 800 B.C. or so, its very existence in that text is a remarkable statement of what the Jews thought was important to share with posterity.
So as a point of argument, your post doesn't really hold up for me, no matter how many concubines Solomon had. (Somehow it reminds me of that wonderful quote from the chariot owner in Ben Hur: "One God I can understand. But one wife? It is not civilized! It is not generous.") But you don't need to make any comparisons between the Old Testament and the online material Bluebonnet has been citing. They're not at all parallel, and the biased polemics on the Internet sink by their own weight. You have many better and more valid ways of making your case.
So as a point of argument, your post doesn't really hold up for me, no matter how many concubines Solomon had. (Somehow it reminds me of that wonderful quote from the chariot owner in Ben Hur: "One God I can understand. But one wife? It is not civilized! It is not generous.") But you don't need to make any comparisons between the Old Testament and the online material Bluebonnet has been citing. They're not at all parallel, and the biased polemics on the Internet sink by their own weight. You have many better and more valid ways of making your case.