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?
rnerclewriting about nuances, some other things to consider would be
- the ratio of men to women
- what marriage means. In a polygamous society where most men have many wives, would marrying an older man mean that you’re getting consumed that night or were you becoming part of another house and waiting your maturation while allying those houses together.
i can’t answer for them and i’m glad to not to live back there and then.
rules and customs that seem ridiculous today were maybe necessary there and then.
Strangely it was just absolutely necessary for Big Mo to have ten wives, when everybody else had to stop at 4.
I’m sure that was an action motivated entirely by social necessity, not powerful men being horndogs.
Was Epstein Island socially necessary? I guess in 1000 years the Church of Trump devotees will be making similar arguments.
the thing is, i’m not a devotee. i’m just an atheist who sees that hate won’t convince anybody that there are no gods. Here, most of the things i read stinks of hate, awful awful hate.
philosophy literally means love of knowledge. You have to love this knowledge and share this love.
Did you read the book that got Salman Rushdie almost killed? You may like it and it sure is a more interesting read then all these. It’s fun too (and that’s why it’s dangerous)