While I recognise and agree with the absurdity of judging another and earlier culture with our modern Western standards, let's just recap a little here.
Just as Confused Ape says, Muhammad could have changed the custom of his day, but didn't. So what we end up with is a revered religious figure with a divine revelation who apparently wasn't enlightened enough to figure out what we now hold to be abhorrent. Clearly he didn't think of it; doesn't anyone feel that, as a messenger of a god, perhaps he should have?
(January 21, 2013 at 6:17 am)Confused Ape Wrote: I'm not defending Muhammed's marriage to Aisha here because he could have changed the custom but didn't. I'm guessing it's because he was a man of his place and time so the custom seemed so 'normal' that he didn't think about it.
Just as Confused Ape says, Muhammad could have changed the custom of his day, but didn't. So what we end up with is a revered religious figure with a divine revelation who apparently wasn't enlightened enough to figure out what we now hold to be abhorrent. Clearly he didn't think of it; doesn't anyone feel that, as a messenger of a god, perhaps he should have?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
