My honest review of Christianity

[Jenny A]

Do you think it was pedophilia for a man to marry a 16 year old girl in ancient times?

Pedophilia is postpubescent sexual and/or romantic attraction to prepubescence.

Making life long commitments at 16 are, in my opinion, imprudent in any times. Unions too. Then, now, and in the future, attraction between the mature and the postpubescent immature is almost always purely sexual for the mature and (if consentual) heavily romantic for the immature. It almost always leads to a very hurt young person.

The OT is bad enough without adding ugly things that aren't there.

It may be imprudent to marry at 16, but it's hardly pedophilia. All of the United States except: California, Indiana, Nebraska, Oregon, and Washington allow girls to marry with parental consent by the age of 16. The remaining four allow marriage with parental consent at 17. A few states allow girls to marry as young as 13 with parental consent.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_marr...of_America

In Scotland and Northern Ireland it's 16 and 16 with parental consent in England. Europe waits until 18. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriageable_age


In ancient Rome girls married between 15 and 20 or so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_ancient_Rome In ancient Greece girls married around 14. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Gre...ng_customs

Since most marriages were arranged, committing to the right mate was not an issue in ancient times.

The real crime, and it was a crime throughout the ancient world, was marrying women without their consent at any age.