(April 25, 2017 at 12:43 pm)Crunchy Wrote:(April 25, 2017 at 12:24 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Inner family marriage is not unique to Islam. Christianity for a long time thought it was no big deal. The ancient Egyptians used to marry off family members to some degree.
Most of antiquity thought of children, but especially girls as a commodity to barter between families to create a bigger resource bond. Pre arranged marriages were quite common in in most of antiquity, and since the mortality rate was much higher back then, a female would have been considered ready for bartering/sex upon their earliest period. Usually between the ages of 9-14 on average.
If you google search country laws about marriage even in the west it can be in the low to mid teens depending. It wasn't that long ago in America that even the age of 14 was acceptable in some places.
I really warn about focusing on one religion, most of antiquity worldwide displayed the same behaviors when it came to patriarchal society. Men were widely thought of as the king of the house, girls/women were considered property and men had the power back then to tell them what to do and who to marry. That was not just in Islam, but in most of antiquity including polytheism.
OK? But we don't live in antiquity.
The rate of birth defects and infant mortality is a significant problem. I'm curious as to why you seem to be counselling avoidance of the issue? Is it just because it's a sensitive issue?
So, I was talking about even our modern era even outside Islam. The idea of teens getting bartered between families still exists elsewhere. Even if the sex is illegal, some sects of LDS still promise the girl to a man even if the man legally has to wait.
Child brides or giving away a child to someone still exists even in poor parts of Asia. The concept of your parents deciding whom you marry also exist in India depending on the individual family with Hindu's and Sikhs.
Again, if you think that is unique to Islam do a google search on America's state laws on the age of consent, and also Mexico, Central America and South America.
Yes in breading does cause birth defects, but again, while most of the west frowns upon it, age of consent ranges widely and causes far more unwanted pregnancies and social diseases in poor countries in the Americas and Africa.
Yes go after Islam, but don't pretend it is the only religion that has followers who have not caught up with the times.
