Napoleon Ier wrote:Doesn't specify, though I guess you could make the argument that at 14 you're considered morally mature, so therefore capable of choosing to marry. I mean if we're honest, post-puberty, it's ok, really. The point is, Mohammad was a sick, anti-semtic, paedophilic f*ck. Jesus was not.
No. The point was that Muhammad was betrothed to a young girl, just as many throughout Europe, the Middle East and China were at the time, and up until this century. It was normal practice, and still is in some places today. The marriage was consummated after puberty (or at least that's what all the Islamic scholars I've discussed the issue with believed). Again, this was common practice throughout the world. Including the Hebrew world in Biblical times. The Bible does not specifically forbid child marriage. Why would it? If The great Kings of Christendom married children. Indeed, your hero Charlemagne married girls at 12 and 13. Jesus did not marry. If he had married it would not have been socially backward, wrong, or even remarkable for him to be betrothed to a child. Although cultural relativism is usually a bit of a naiive explanation, in this case it really is everything.