Yes, I also read that, and I lead a discussion on it. There are plenty of different practices of peophelia in all religions including christianity. In Indonesia the have a practice called supra where a baby girl is bought by her future huband so he can raise her to his liking. In some Hindu practices they have something called faternal polyandry where a woman marries many men as young as 11. Also in hinduism some cultures will make a man marry his sister in-law if his brother passes away no matter what the age so he can be the family land owner. Also they practice polygamy where old men marry women as young as he wants them.
Recently in Catholism, There have been many many incidents of priest having pedophelia homosexual relationships. That has been going on for hundreds of years. I agree with you with some aspects of your comments but america didn't outlaw christian inbred marriages until the early 20th century. I believe the world has made leaps and bounds in technological science. When you say a study showing that 1400 years of inbreeding has dumded down a culture, which culture was the study on? Was the study on just culture or did the analyze religion along with it? Just because they practice the same religion does not mean the share the same culture.
Culture-a particular form or stage of a civilzation, as that of a certian nation or period.
Religion-a set of beliefs concerning the cause, & purpose of universe, especially when it considered as the creation of a super human agency.
In New Guiena lives a tribe called The Sambia. They believe when boys swallow the sperm of elder men they become a man. So they have boys as young as eight perform oral sex many times on the men so they can swallow as much sperm as the can to become a strong man.
In tibet and china buddist monks had sexual relationships with young boys, when the Jesuits arrived they were horrified by what they were seeing. Greek philosophers motivated pedophila. Socrates came up with the philosophy of the omni god which has spawned now into Judeo-christian beliefs. He was an avid lover of boys. Young christian girls are still married of in parts of russia and in America its legal to marry at 13 with parents consent.
I believe since Islam is highly villianized these days, its easy to overlook everyone else's short comings and try to state your case on why they are evil. You are a sheep that follows along with the media and conforms to everyone else's beliefs instead of thinking for yourself and doing research. You want to spout hate when you have no clue what you are talking about.
When Hitler slaughtered thousands of jews, Stalin was doing the same thing in Soviet but he managed to murder double of what Hitler numbers where. Do you no why Hitler is consider more evil to Americans than the soviets? because Stalin was our Allie. Therefore the media overlooked the millions of innocent people he tortured and murdered. Also the case with china. Now the government is telling us all muslims are bad. You jump right on the band wagon and hate them. Did you know that Islam is the second largest religion in the world yet we hate them because a small population of crazy zealots. Yes they hate us, but I have news for you THE WHOLE WORLD HATES AMERICANS.
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Originally Posted by sofiaofhouston
Ok I will ask a question. In what other religion is pedophelia so readily condoned? Yes there are the freaks in West Texas and so on but our legal system steps in. That does not happen in the Middle East. It is common for young girls to be sold off to older men ( I'm talking a 9 year old girl to a 60 year man) that is her cousin to keep the family wealth all in the family? There is a study showing that 1400 years of inbreading has dumbed down an entire culture. How do you counter that?
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