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Sanhedrin 54b . A Jew may have sex with a child as long as the child is less than nine years old.
This is what it's actually says:
Our Rabbis taught: In the case of a male child, a young one is not regarded as on a par with an old one; but a young beast is
I don't read anywhere that he is allowed to have sex with a 9 year old?
come-and-hear.com/sanhedrin/sanhedrin_54.html#PARTb
Neither do I read that in following:
A maiden aged three years and a day may be acquired in marriage by coition, and if her deceased husband's brother cohabits with her, she becomes his. The penalty of adultery may be incurred through her; [if a niddah] she defiles him who has connection with her, so that he in turn defiles that upon which he lies, as a garment which has lain upon [a person afflicted with gonorrhoea].5 If she married a priest, she may eat of terumah;6 If any unfit person7 has a connection with her, he disqualifies her from the priesthood8 - If any of the forbidden degrees had intercourse with her, they are executed on her account,9 but she is exempt.
And in 76A I cannot find anything else than that Incest is punishable by stoning or fire.
Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 58 (Volume 5, Book 58, Number 234)
Here's the full text. Looks immediately a bit different than how you put it:
Narrated Aisha:
The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house.
By the way: Tutankhamon married when he was 12 with his niece of 12 years old. The Talmud was written about 2700 years ago - ppl lived to be 30 years max at the time, it was completely normal to marry around 12 years or even a little younger.
All the quotes you selectively put here are still no explanation as to why you need to defend Catholic priests that nowadays with all the laws against it, still performing sexual acts with under aged. Nowadays, ppl tend to get older, therefore the age of consent has gone up as well. Priests should know that.
Circumsizing is not sexual abuse, by the way. If it's performed under hygenic circumstances there is nothing against it as it is even more hygienic than when you would leave your foreskin there. And besides, one article doesn't make summer, especially not when you compare it to the tsunami of Catholic cases that come to surface now. And the fact that you try to defend acts like that makes you look not that good.
Here's a nice one as well: israelect/Come-and-Hear/editor/ca-trimm/index.html
Take especially a look at the first reaction-email.
So I guess, I still will be eating cookies and you will still be eating crow... As always, happy to rebuke you again :)
Especially since you tend to be a bit arrogant, makes it more fun :)
Oh, and my Grandparent were both 26 when they married. The other two were 28 and 25, so they followed proceedings and morales very correctly.
I don't believe these Talmudic writings are mainstream Jewish teachings.
Not only that, but it doesn't even say what he wants it to say as well.
>^..^<
M-G (tiens, tiens)
