Seriously guys? I comment upon girls being married of at an early age and then being treated improperly and someone downvotes me? What do you want? Slave trade? Objectification of women? Hats off to such people.
Point of fact- from Sumerian to Greek to Nordic to Christian and beyond- you’ll find some messed up stuff in history and in the holy texts of many people. Things that offend modern sensibilities because what was a matter of pragmatism or culture for a time or place is no longer held in esteem. Numbers in the Christian Bible not only states that the invading soldiers of Israel should kill all the men, women, and boys- but take the little girls as their own, but further there are more than several instances of betrothals to girls as young as 3. There are also supporting rulings in the Talmud for intercourse with underage girls under certain circumstances. Many argue that betrothals didn’t mean marriage at that age, or that sex wasn’t always carried out until the girls were older or so on. It’s all somewhat moot. Especially when we factor in things like a common age considered sexuality maturity could be as low as 10-12 years old at the time.....
Its just a meme. People will always find something to downvote. I doubt this is a real scenario. Also not everyone wants to get religious or political.
.... some Muslims like to point at Judiasm or Christianity as relions condoning pedophiles. Some Christians or Jews like to do the same to Muslims, some Athiests like to just call everyone pedophiles. Here’s the thing- prophets or holy men or not- these books tell stories or rulers and common men. And in those days such actions weren’t so uncommon. Up through the 1880’s most of the United States and much of the world held the age of consent as 10 years old or younger. To this day parts of the world including major developed western countries have ages of consent as low as 13 years old. So there’s no need to fling historical mud. Hopefully most of us can agree that sex with kids is wrong. So I’m the future and going forward we should focus on that, not play finger pointing with who’s ancient ancestors did it- especially when pretty much every culture has at one time held such practices. What matters is that now and going forward these behaviors are not allowed or tolerated.
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Scratch that, she was six.