I 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?