Brian Ross wrote on Mar 1
st, 2018 at 10:56pm:
Auggie wrote on Mar 1
st, 2018 at 10:37pm:
@Brian Ross.
The issue here is that Muhammad had sex with a nine year old girl. If he married her and then waited 10 years, that I would be able to swallow. But he essentially raped her.
Richard II most likely didn’t have sex with her. This is key issue here.
Second, the biggest point is that he was a so called prophet of god. There is no way in hell that god would command a person to marry let alone have sex with a nine year old.
As I keep pointing out, "the past is a different country, they did things differently there." Mohammed was in Mecca, not modern Australia. Different places, times have different ideas about such matters. You cannot and should not apply 21st century morality to the 7th century C.E. No proper historian would.
As I keep pointing out, he was deemed a prophet of god and is considered an exemplar of human behaviour. I apply a higher standard to him because of his self-declared prophet status.
Why ask me, then? I do not consider him as a representative of any Sky Daddy, Augie. I consider him a man who foundered a religion. Ask a Muslim if you want the opinion of a Muslim. Tsk, tsk.
Quote: Quote:So back to you the issue: Jesus never had sex with any one nor was he in a relationship. This makes him a better person than Muhammad. Jesus was superior in every way.
That is a fact.
No, it is what the Church(es) tell you, Augie. There is Mary Magdalen - a "lady of negotiable virtue" who it is alluded had a relationship with Christ. Do not believe what you have been told is "fact" when there is no way of verifying it. It is IMHO, myth.
That is what the doctrine teaches. That is what the Christian faith is based on.
Even if he had a partner or wife in Mary Magdalene, this makes him less extraordinary than he is portrayed but hardly is it unacceptable: he was in a monogamous relationship. Much better than Muhammad.
If you choose to rely on faith, rather than reason, why are we discussing this at all, Augie? You don't need affirmation from me, afterall you have faith, now don't you? Tsk, tsk.