NotClavicular
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nowhere in christian scripture is there a defined age of consent or an unambiguous condemnation of sexual relationships with minors. Yes, it’s perfectly obvious to modern western sensibilities that abusing a child is abhorrent.Oh well shit, you snipped some random exegesis.
One, as your own post states, it can indeed refer to literal children, and I know this may be hard to believe, but most people, think that raping children is incredibly detrimental to their physical, mental, and in this case, spiritual health. Now you are correct, in that its not literally a verse advocating killing pedophiles. I do not think that any significant group of people reads it that way.
There are plenty of topics in the Bible that are not explicitly addressed, however, its easy to intuit from Jesus' teachings things that are off limits, like vehicular homicide, insider trading, and raping children. There is no mainstream Christian thought that believes you should fuck kids. Now, the counter point I assume you might bring up would be to point to the sex abuse scandals, particularly in the Catholic church, though hardly exclusive. No one defends them raping kids. No one thinks they did the right thing. The only prominent Christian I've heard saying anything pedophillic is Nick Fuentes, the closeted Mexican leader of the white race, who is a retarded fed and has all the rich and deep Christian spirituality of the Amazing Atheist.
And honestly, initially I just rolled my eyes, but then I read this shit. "It's really not that much better than islam".
I honestly think you're just being a spazz, but on the off chance you're actually this retarded, let me break it down for you.
Christians -> I think Jesus is a pretty cool guy. Eh, dies for sin and doesn't afraid of anything. Jesus was a celibate preacher who taught compassion, even against those who would do you harm.
Islam -> Muhammad, who according to the most credible Islamic sources was a murderous pedophile, is the best of all men. His decision to fuck a 9 year old, still leads to jurisprudence in the Islamic world allowing for grown men to marry children. I can even find multiple, incredibly popular Western Muslims who advocate or defend this.
You don't have to believe either, but to pretend they are the same means you are either incredibly ignorant of both, or you are a disingenuous moron.
But let’s not pretend we got that straight from the bible because we didn’t
Historically, christians (like everyone else) married teen girls off to older men. If scripture was so clearly against that, you’d expect some explicit prohibition, but instead, it’s silent
You can project “love thy neighbor” or “don’t harm children” onto it, but that’s you reading modern ethics back into the text. The notion that anyone under 18 is legally untouchable is a 20th century invention. That’s not in the gospels, nor anywhere else in the bible
If christians are so sure pedophilia is scripturally condemned, then show me the verse. Citing “causing a child to stumble” doesn’t magically become “age of consent is 18.” lol
Also, I agree with what you said about Islam, and I do think Islam is worse, but both are pretty bad tbh