• idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Do you think there’s a more accurate determination of a teenager’s exact age two thousand years ago?

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      20 hours ago

      To use it as ammo against Christianity is just silly. “Oh, the mother of Jesus might have been a young teenager instead of an older teenager because people married earlier back then, and a document known for being a forgery says she is”

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        20 hours ago

        I don’t need that for ammo against Christianity, lol, I went to catholic school, I’ve got plenty of material. I was using it to make a flip joke.

        But do you have any source for her age? If that’s as unreliable as you say, you should probably put an edit through on Wikipedia.

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          19 hours ago

          I’ve tried before. Wikipedia is governed by reddit atheists tbh. I have tried adjusting certain things before by citing Qualified Christian Scholars (this was on the topic of Gospel Authorship) and I was told I am not allowed to cite “Christian Apologists”. The problem with that is, any scholar regardless of qualification who makes an argument in favour of a Christian narrative is by definition an apologist, or at least making apologetic material.