Discussion on Historical Marriage Practices

You never ask a Catholic why was Mary 12 years old and

Joseph 90 when they married

Um, because Mary was a virgin. The Bible never even says she was 12,

but even if

she was 12, her marriage was never consummated.

And you never ask Jews why Rebecca was three and

Isaac 40 when they married.

Rebecca was not three in the Bible. Genesis never gives her age.

And why are we getting Rebecca's age from later rabbinic calculations when

those same rabbinic texts are discussing the legal status of a girl

three years and one day old in marriage?

The actual Bible describes Rebecca carrying water, watering camels,

traveling, and speaking for herself, saying, "I will go." You think a

three-year-old would do that?

So why does Islam get judged by practices that Christians and

Jews follow themselves?

Um, because the prophet you look up to as the

greatest man to ever live

married a girl when she was six and consummated the marriage when she

was nine

years old.

Why? In 1880, the legal age for intercourse in the

USA was nine, and in 1888 it was

raised to 12, and later it became 13.

And when the USA gained independence, the legal age was set

at seven.

Okay, and? America had horrible laws in the 1800s.

That does not defend Muhammad. If America allowed something immoral,

America was

wrong, too. Women didn't have rights back then either.

You think that's moral as well? But saying other societies did bad things

too is

not a defense. It just means more than one society failed

children.

And America eventually raised those ages because people recognized the

laws were wrong. I can bet my whole life that if you had a

six-year-old daughter, you would not give her up for marriage in

any time period,

because you already know that is wrong.

A six-year-old is a child, and it is a shame for you to sit there as

a mother, as a woman, defending children being married to men in

their

40s and 50s who then consummate those, those marriages.

Again, Mary was a virgin, and as Christians,

we look up to Jesus Christ

as the ultimate example. Jesus said in Matthew 18:6, "If

anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble,

it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck

and to

be drowned in the depths of the sea." That's who we look up to