According to an interview, James LaBrie wrote this with three specific religious leaders in mind. But who?
As for "unconsenting plural wives", Joseph Smith is a possibility, although I don't know if they were unconsenting or how many there were. For more information, read "Under the Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer. It's about fundamental Mormonism. Mohammed is also possible; he took plural wives, but not forty.
I also suspect Jim Jones is one of them. He's the guy who led hundreds of people to their deaths in Guyana in 1978, ordering them all to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid when the US government investigated whether he was holding people against their wills.
According to an interview, James LaBrie wrote this with three specific religious leaders in mind. But who?
As for "unconsenting plural wives", Joseph Smith is a possibility, although I don't know if they were unconsenting or how many there were. For more information, read "Under the Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer. It's about fundamental Mormonism. Mohammed is also possible; he took plural wives, but not forty.
I also suspect Jim Jones is one of them. He's the guy who led hundreds of people to their deaths in Guyana in 1978, ordering them all to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid when the US government investigated whether he was holding people against their wills.