Lanky_Pomegranate530Muhammad was a pedo
reallyI know we like to see things as black and white.
But stuff is nuanced.
We are talking about 1400 years ago. What was the norm in those times and how different is this from those norms? Were the things being preached better than the norms? If so, I think that’s progress.
Right now, average age of marriage has been going up and is early 30s in the US. About a 100 years ago, it was early 20s/late teens. In some states the official age didn’t get part mid teens till recently.
With that in mind, should we be judging the people of 1920s as advocates of child marriages?
One of the many problems with that argument is that are talking about a religion that is used as a guide and basis for the morality of billions of people. So when you say “well we cant really judge this guy by today’s moral standards” you’re ignoring the part where those same moral standards could be applied to people today by that religion. It is precisely because people questioned the morality of what older generations did that things could change for the better. So yeah I am going to judge the shit out of people that lived in the past because saying “no that isn’t ok” is the first step to society no longer tolerating the horrors of the past.
rnercleSo yeah I am going to judge the shit out of people that lived in the past because saying “no that isn’t ok” is the first step to society no longer tolerating the horrors of the past.`
they’re already gone, you can’t judge them. There is a difference between “no that isn’t ok” and “no, that wasn’t ok”.
First one isn’t judging the past, it’s practically about the present.
Tolerating the horrors of the past also seems absurd. “Intolerance to repeating the horrors of the past” maybe?
are you living your life today according to the customs of 22nd or 31st century?
Well reasoned.