Pedophilia in the Bible: this is a porn book

[Rev. Rye]

Sheep trying to justify the actions of wolves. Love it!

To be fair, Beta Boy does have a point, that this is less about fucking little girls and more about taking cities, and leaving none alive but the girls young enough to not already be married, usually enslaving them, with many becoming full-fledged wives. Of course, the girls who weren't married tended to be pretty damn young, but I don't think that age itself was the factor in why they were kept alive (which would be pedophilia), and I highly doubt they understood pedophilia in anywhere near the same way we understand it.

If this is any different from what many other such tribes were doing in the Bronze age, it's probably because some civilizations didn't even spare the girls. That said, this verse is still a case study in why the Bible is simply not something we can take at face value as a guide to life today, because while some tidbits still ring true after two or three millennia (most of which can be found in other religions anyway), there's still so much that simply cannot apply because the situations then and now have changed that goddam much.