CapnAwesome Wrote:Mister Agenda Wrote:Whether you believe Mohammed was a child-fucker depends largely on if you follow Shia or a Sunni hadiths. I presume you find the Sunni hadiths to be more credible.
In this matter, mainly because the Hadith of Aisha herself is part of that tradition and it's from that Hadith that we get her age. Also it's only the start of Muhammad being a total shithead. By modern stardards he's totally immoral. Yet modern people claim that he's morally perfect. So it doesn't matter that other people were just as bad. Nobody, much less billions of people, are claiming those people to be the morally perfect example of how a man should act.
The Sunni have a political motivation to Aisha being young, it's part of their justification for the legitimacy for their whole branch of Islam (it's more miraculous if the faith was transmitted through a little girl). If the man even actually existed in the first place. It's a pernicious belief used to justify child marriage today in countries like Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The Shia position is less odious, and equally evidenced. It would be an improvement if the Quranist movement caught on and the hadiths were jettisoned entirely.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
