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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait WHAT?? Bruh what is going on with Christianity?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Muhammed had a 9yo wife (but it's "totally cool" because he didn't fuck her until she was 11, I'm assured...), it's not just Christianity.

Also iirc people had babies about once a year starting around 14 until they died at 30 of any number of causes, and that's if they made it past infancy since the infant mortality rate was so high, which was also why people had like 20 kids. Frankly it's relatively recently that the standards we know today were put in place, and I'm happy for the strides we've made but there's still room for improvement, but this type of shit happened by all religions for most of recorded history and probably before that until like, 19xx.

Coming back to add in an edit, here's an article I saw this morning.

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/iraq-proposes-lowering-legal-age-of-marriage-for-girls-to-nine/ss-AA1owxoj

It's definitely not just Christians, this is from today.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, this is one of those cases where it very much was a standard of its times. Even in societies that were generally egalitarian ya saw it since well as you stated infant mortality was real fucken high and giving birth wasvery dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Wait for them to learn about islam