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Here's the problem with English: I can not use the word "you", and still have people know whether I am talking to them, or to people like them in general. Some of my "you"s were plural, some were singular. I need some way of coping with this language.
You replied to only 1 paragraph of mine, and decided I am a troll just for ~~suggesting~~ pushing that slavery/"pedophilia" might not be bad, unlike what you were taught.
Here's an article I remembered, it's written by a Christian:
Edit: no, actually, English isn't the problem, since I appended "guys" to my statement about looking at religion and deciding it's silly, you should know that I wasn't talking about you personally.
I think the biggest flaw is assuming you're among the atheist/agnostic crowd, but even then, I appended that claim with "(I guess)" to indicate that I am indeed putting words in someone's mouth. Maybe you're among the Christian crowd, or maybe you're a... ~~Zionist~~ Jew? Hindu?
For any passing people, the original reply isn't edited, so I am safe from that side of accusations.
I see, English isn't your first language. You made (and continue to make) false assumptions. The media has had no influence on my viewpoints on religion (Christianity in particular), my personal experiences are more than sufficient. My first comment was based on Mohammeds youngest wife and how it's accepted/ignored by Muslims. We have (somewhat?) similar action in the US, there was a republican GOP member in New Hampshire that was pushing to keep legal marriage set at 16 rather than 18, described the 16 year-olds as "ripe"...super creepy
I am pretty sure he's an awful person just because he's an American politician.
But you're missing the point though, you still think of young marriage as an absolutely-no-questions-asked obscene thing, which is understandable, seeing that most western teenagers are brainwashed into thinking they're kids, and are therefore immature and aren't ready for marriage. (Which creates some other problems because that's the natural age for marriage)
Where I live, we have 16-year-old men marrying 14-year-old women, and they have a child a year or two later, and they're really fine, except for maybe being less educated that they could have otherwise been. Speed of maturity actually depends mainly on two factors: difficulty of life (maturity of the mind and body), and heat of the climate (sexual maturity), and considering how high both were at the time of prophet PbUH, marrying at 9 is absolutely normal.
In fact, I am sure there are many marriage-ready 9-year-old women at places like Uganda and the poor African nations.
Actually, the idea of setting a minimum age only came to us with the french when they decided to colonize us, so of course we won't look positively at ideas brought by people who came to rape and pillage, and it still doesn't seem so bright considering they're still pillaging us implicitly through corrupt political affairs.
Isn't it weird that some resource-rich nations are dead-poor, while something like London can look like science fiction, and that a system as inefficient as democracy continues to function, and that every citizen somehow has human rights, and that the electricity doesn't get cut daily. To this day I have a hard time believing that flat asphalt roads exist, and that driving on them doesn't feel like riding a roller coaster of some sort; NO IT MUST BE FICTION, I WON'T BELIEVE IT TILL I SEE IT WITH MY OWN EYES!!!
Note to Americans: you guys might say: "Oh, but our medical system is a scam and colleges cause students to drown in debt because we normalized the disgusting act of usury!", it's just because your government's is spending a third-of-the-world's-military-budget worth of money on bombing Iraq and Yemen and Palestine and Cuba and Afghanistan and some other things in the name of "War On Terrorism" against those they pillaged. (No wait they made it back when they built a dock in Gaza to steal all their oil, so your government actually has no excuse, it must be corruption/falling into usury)
On the topic of American wastage, I read an article long ago where Americans were concerned that a 2000$ houthi drone was usually dealt with using a 2m$ missile, so the Pentagon spokesman or something replied with what was essentially: "Don't worry, Americans! the houthi's "terrorism" is already causing much more economic harm, so that's a negligible efficiency loss", like, how is telling people that the situation is much worse than they imagine supposed to calm them down?
Edit: I forgot Russia, almost the only nation America has any right to actually fight.
Go join NAMBLA, they'd love to hear your opinion regarding this. I don't. Good day.
It's always funny when 2 people politely agree that they more or less hate each other. Good day.
NAMBLA people just seem like less disgusting Americans. Uninterested!