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Originally posted by Nammu
reply to post by Steam
Hey well, Biblical scholars say Mary was aged 13-15 when she had Jesus.
So whaddya know, God's a paedo too!
Chris: God's watching me do number two? Oh man, I'm a sinner. God's a pervert.
Originally posted by Nammu
reply to post by Steam
Hey well, Biblical scholars say Mary was aged 13-15 when she had Jesus.
So whaddya know, God's a paedo too!
Originally posted by redhorse
You have some good points, but this one isn't. This is an illogical comparison.
If (big if, mind you) the article is true, there is a huge difference between being tried by a jury of your peers for murder and receiving the death penalty if found guilty, and killing people for religious reasons with no trial, let alone a jury. One is the implementation (or at least the attempt at it) of justice, and the other is a vigilantism in it's most trivial and small scale application, and all out war in it's most extreme.
What you have is a cheap shot there. A zippy little one liner that is as much propaganda as the article that inspired it as a rebuttal.
Child marriage in Judaism is restricted to female children; the earliest point at which a male is permitted to become betrothed (Hebrew: erusin) is when they reach the age of majority, 13. Although boys were regarded, by classical rabbinic literature, as sexual beings once they had reached 9 years of age, girls were regarded as sexual beings from the age of just 3. According to the Talmud, it was permissible for an adult male to have sexual intercourse with a 3 year old girl, if she was maritally single; girls could be betrothed and married (Hebrew: nissu'in) at this age.
MISHNAH. A GIRL OF THE AGE OF THREE YEARS AND ONE DAY MAY BE BETROTHED BY INTERCOURSE;