When the Q15 deliberately hid unsavory church history details did they also commit the sin of "steadying the ark?"

leave God out of this one. whether God exists or not, whether Smith was legitimately a prophet or not is completely inconsequential to the matter of consent. Ethics and morals are absolutely subjective and not constant.

The article you linked to is flawed for the same reason your previous argument is flawed. Because we're talking about events that happened 200 years ago. You cannot use modern standards to evaluate events that happened 200 years ago. Doing so is a logical fallacy. FYI linking to an article in a debate is bad form. I can't rebuttal the author. Make your own points, don't rely on someone else's.

The average age of marriage was between 20 and 22 in 1840 according to various sources on Google. Let's think about the word average. For every woman that got married at 30, someone got married at 12. By all accounts, marriage that age was very common. Your own argument about the average age of marriage confirms it.

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