Somebody tell Gaetz. That might be one way we get rid of him.
"Consent"
Like consent even comes into it
If they can consent to extra sprinkles on their ice cream, they can be child sex slaves.
(Edit: I just wanna say I'm so glad I didn't need the /s for people to... Wait, I hope people aren't actually agreeing with this)
So does that align with Mohammad 's second wife?
All religion is just a framework to be shitty.
I dont know why you'd be downvoted, people should be reminded of this often.
The prophet Muhammad married his wife Aisha when she was 6 years old. According to the history he waited until she was 9 to start raping her.
Edit: he was 53 when he started raping his 9 year old wife. Fucking gross.
I would assume the downvotes are more for the “religion is a framework to be shitty” part. I’m also going to get downvoted for a similar reason.
Religion is justification for one’s moral compass / desires.
You see people who think it’s morally okay to rape kids or take away women’s rights or the rights of trans people or the rights of gay people etc. These people can’t justify morals (or lack thereof) logically so they use religion to give them a false sense of rationality. Hence you think religion is a framework for being shitty.
However, there are other people who use religion to justify “good” behavior like compassion and acceptance. These people are still reliant on fallacious beliefs, but their actions are not “shitty” so they get offended. Furthermore, others—who know people in this second category—may also think the remark about religion being shitty is not correct and is rude. That’s why it’s getting downvoted.
Fun sidenote, we can actually formally prove that religion or at least absolute morality doesn’t matter, and that people will just do what they want no matter what:
Proof. We seek to prove that people do whatever they want regardless of the existence of a god or absolute morality. We have three natural cases:
Case 1: Assume neither god nor an absolute purpose/morality exists. Then a person will default to their own morals. Hence, if neither exists, people will do whatever they want.
Case 2: Assume a god or purpose/morality exists that does not align with a person’s current morals. (For example a god that required you to strangle six puppies every year or required human sacrifice, or raping kids, or blowing up hospitals, or working in finance, etc.). Then this person will not follow that god/purpose because they are a bad god/purpose. Hence, a person will do whatever they feel is right regardless even with the existence of a true deity/purpose when that god/purpose does not share their morals.
Case 3: Assume a true god or purpose does exist and that it aligns with the morality of a person. Then that person will be living that way anyway, so the existence of the god or purpose has no effect on them doing whatever they want.
In each case a person will do whatever they want regardless of the existence or non existence of a god or a true purpose/morality. Q.E.D.
I should note that while I did come up with this proof myself several years ago, I learned later that Marcus Aurelius and other philosophers beat me to the punch by several centuries. But hey philosophy is the study of understanding existence, if we both exist in the same existence we can and should be able to discover the same facts about reality.
Edit, phrasing.
I hate Abrahamic origin religious systems en masse, especially when states use them to justify bullshit. Goes for western countries too.
Some folks probably think I'm targeting
Abrahamic origin
It's not like other systems have a much better track record. Shintoism was responsible for the rape of nanking, the ongoing Rohingya genocide is being done in the name of Buddhism, and take your pick of at least 2/3rds of everything the Roman empire ever did
Sure but that's not the system being discussed, I figured I'd limit my scope a bit lol.
I agree with you, and my original comment spoke to that
So the common denominator is: people suck.
I hate Abrahamic origin religious systems en masse
Right there with you in agreement 100%. This iron age mythology superstitious nonsense needs to be eradicated completely, and only studied academically from a sociological perspective for what it really is, myth, as well as all the pain, suffering, death and horror it has caused human beings, and still is causing. Fuck religion.
Bronze Age 😋 #Ackchyually. Root narratives of Judaism and so the Abrahamic tradition from roughly 2000-1200 BCE
Ignore me.
Do you have a source for that? I would think the oldest passages of the old testament go back to the 900s at best. That's why the oldest historical figure the bible has is Pharaoh Shoshank. I'd be surprised to see if anything from before the Bronze Age Collapse made it in (besides being vaguely Semetic).
Yea I think you're more right, Judaism didn't kick off until the early iron age, and changed over time. But also the roots in late bronze age semetic culture are, if not significant, at least relevant depending on the conversation.
Source: theologians dunking on evangelicals on YouTube, and Wikipedia.
That makes sense. I also hear that the laws of the Old Testament take considerable amount of inspiration from the Laws of Hammurabi; which was developed earlier in the Bronze Age.
I quickly googled this and mostly found sources like Fox News or Times of India that follow some agenda.
So here’s a Guardian article on the topic in case anyone was wondering about a commonly known source: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/aug/09/proposed-iraqi-law-change-would-legalise-child-say-activists
Basically there are some religious hardliners that are in the pocket of Iran that want to reduce the marriage age to 9 which would effectively end up in legalizing child rape. Opponents of this are being accused of „western decadence“. So basically after the ~~destabilization~~ liberation of Iraq politics are dominated by the same people that run Iran.
The people ~~suffering~~ enjoying their liberation are the normal people as usual.
Opponents of this are being accused of „western decadence“
Those damned hedonists indulging in the luxury of... checks notes... keeping their dicks out of kids.
So basically after the ~~destabilization~~ liberation of Iraq politics are dominated by the same people that run Iran.
I mean, they were ~~destabilized~~ liberated by the same people...
In the meantime, in Iran, age of consent is ~~15~~ 13 (Src https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_Asia). Too low as well, but not 9 FFS.
As if women in these countries have the right to consent or not in the first place
They follow muhammad right to the letter don't they?
At least they're consistent 🤮
I'm so glad we brought freedom to that country 👏👏👏
Mission Accomplished
That's grim
What a weird arbitrary number. I wonder where they got that idea from.
Qur'an
Nope, al-bukhari
from 15, apparently
I mean, some US states have lower... We need to work on it.
The youngest age of consent in the US is currently 16, unrestricted, but 14 if you're within a few years of the 14-year-old.
I didn't know the majority of the US age of consent was 16, I thought that was a European thing.
but only 12 states have the age of consent at 18.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_States
I understand that Saddam Hussein was a terrible man. But it sucks that support from his opposition is what helped push this. They're not bad because they are Shia; they are simply the worst of the people that opposed Hussein. This is what happens when you prop up puppet governments. The rights of the people aren't important to the puppeteer.
Tl:dr: Even with Saddam Hussein's death, Iraq never got its freedom.
Matt Gaetz b like rubbingHandsTogether.gif
So they just want to legalize what they've been doing all the time anyways?
Read the headline, immediately checked if this was some the onion type of magazine
YIIIIIIKES
That guy from Rhode Island is stoked.
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