"Modern" Saudi Arabia is as advanced in their thinking today as First Century Near and Middle Eastern societies were then. Mary, the mother of Jesus was married, through arrangement, to Joseph before they had sex, if your version of "history" allows they had sex at all. Joseph was a man in his thirties (in keeping with First Century Jewish Tradition) and Mary was a girl (in present day American thought) of twelve or thirteen when she passed through her first menses.
At this point, so the story goes, the "Holy Spirit" impregnated her with Jesus. While Joseph was grousing at his young bride's pregnancy, an "angel" appeared to him and said Mary was pregnant with the child of God; and to go ahead with the wedding and not to "put her away." This meant to divorce her. So, while the "Father of Jesus," acted well within the cultural morals of First Century Jews, the Christian God is a pedophile by the cultural morals of 21st Century America.
Try to imagine what it must have been like for Joseph. "Hi, Honey, how was your... You're WHAT? PREGNANT? Well, we both know it wasn't ME! I didn't even know you could get preg--by the way, why didn't you tell ME you'd had your first period? Now, tell me who I get to sue for taking my virgin bride's hymen? GOD? Oh, that's great, Mary. You're telling me God impregnated you? There's a lot of that going around. He's getting kind of randy of late, don't you think. My sister told our parents the same thing and two of my cousins tried to tell their parents the same thing. My parents had to give back the dowry to my sister's human husband, and then my sister eloped with some teenager from Jerusalem. A year later, she comes home with a baby my mother has to take care of and goes off to flirt with the man she was supposed to marry in the first place. If you knew my nephew, you'd agree with my mom that he's definitely NOT the son of God. So who is it this time, Mary? Still "God," huh? What? You still want to marry me? You want me to help you raise the son of God? Will God be paying child support? Yeah, I know this is serious. I paid a lot of money to be the first guy in there, so if I find out who beat me to it, I'll seriously take it out of his hide."
At this point, so the story goes, the "Holy Spirit" impregnated her with Jesus. While Joseph was grousing at his young bride's pregnancy, an "angel" appeared to him and said Mary was pregnant with the child of God; and to go ahead with the wedding and not to "put her away." This meant to divorce her. So, while the "Father of Jesus," acted well within the cultural morals of First Century Jews, the Christian God is a pedophile by the cultural morals of 21st Century America.
Try to imagine what it must have been like for Joseph. "Hi, Honey, how was your... You're WHAT? PREGNANT? Well, we both know it wasn't ME! I didn't even know you could get preg--by the way, why didn't you tell ME you'd had your first period? Now, tell me who I get to sue for taking my virgin bride's hymen? GOD? Oh, that's great, Mary. You're telling me God impregnated you? There's a lot of that going around. He's getting kind of randy of late, don't you think. My sister told our parents the same thing and two of my cousins tried to tell their parents the same thing. My parents had to give back the dowry to my sister's human husband, and then my sister eloped with some teenager from Jerusalem. A year later, she comes home with a baby my mother has to take care of and goes off to flirt with the man she was supposed to marry in the first place. If you knew my nephew, you'd agree with my mom that he's definitely NOT the son of God. So who is it this time, Mary? Still "God," huh? What? You still want to marry me? You want me to help you raise the son of God? Will God be paying child support? Yeah, I know this is serious. I paid a lot of money to be the first guy in there, so if I find out who beat me to it, I'll seriously take it out of his hide."
Or something like that...