and soon they block all bittorrent and ftp traffic because someone used it to distribute child porn

Less standing.. more soapboxing

I guess this pretty much kills off their ‘common carrier’ argument. If the ISPs can be pressured into closing off some types of traffic they’re behaving as content providers, not carriers. So I suspect this is a ‘foot in the door’ exercise sponsored by a slush fund belonging to the movie industry.

So, think of the children. When they grow up the Internet may have become two networks. One will be the shopping channel, and the other an illegal encrypted net offering copies of Linux to hackers who bypass the security on their PCs.

One possible way of getting rid of many child porn sites proper could be to enlist some hackers to find and destroy the sites… gives everyone something to do.

Blocking access to Usenet isn’t the answer. I’m not defending child pornographers, in fact, I used to catch them.

Most child exploitation takes place in Chat, IM and e-mail. As kids migrate towards the likes of MySpace, Bebo and Facebook, so will the criminals. Criminals who exploit children are smart enough not to distribute illegal material via newsgroups that log their IP and activity.

The answer is Moderation (critical review) of material as it happens, not reactive from law enforcement subpoenas. Law enforcement is often notified by a victim and it traverses a lengthy chain to the ISP and it traverses back.

I have the rest of my thoughts on the subject on my blog, in addition to current Chat Rooms on AOL that likely are discussing child endangering topics.

http://www.joemanna.com/blog/why-blocking-child-porn-is-not-against-child-porn/

~Joe

Damage done to society by kiddy porn (statistically, not anecdotally) = almost zero

Damage done to criminal politicians by free internet = almost certain death.

Issue which can drive almost any voter to fevered insanity: Their childrens’ safety

Do I need to explain further?

Most AG’s, like DA’s are the worst of both being lawyers and politicians. Yes, attention grabbing is all they”re doing…if they really wanted to do something, they would get the ISP’s to agree to hand over intel when requested for those accessing certain web sites. The actual sites TBD by the state’s aggressiveness, and to be reviewed by the ISP that it is related to child porn. In this way it would be up to the state to identify these sites and prosecute, not up to the ISP’s to filter. They have wanted to do this forever–if they can make a buck. Always funny to me that they can’t/won’t block spammers access to their networks but they can block access if they can make money… Must be that they’re making too much money on those DS-3’s they sell the spam houses….

Well child porn should be legal. That way it can be managed. No matter how much we may hate the idea of our kids having sex. They do have that interest at a young age. The problem is if we don’t make it a legal establishment kids will be taken advantage of through underground channels. Now I know people will say that we can find them all and stop them. But the truth is we can’t find them all. For every one underground we find 5 more show up. Kidnapped kids are now believed to be for these underground child porn places. Fact is sex is natural at any age and would be better to make certain kids that are interested and there are kids interested that it be under some guidelines that protect the kids. We want out kids to never grow up but the fact is sex is a natural and preventing kids interest by telling them the age there allowed to have sex makes more problems for all but more for the kids. Make kiddy porn legal under guidelines that make sense to the kids and to all. Remember something. Kids forced into this kiddy porn has no protection from anyone. Legalizing kiddy porn will make it less of an interest. Just like France making it legal to walk any place fully naked helps prevent Rape.

Is the act of having sex with a willing child a crime, or a sin, or both, or neither?
Is the act of having sex with a willing child condemned by the gods and men, or only by men?

I will present my views based on an in-depth study of the idea of the rectitude of adult-child sex. Keep in mind; I do not advocate the abuse of children in any way. I do not tolerate the beating of children (or women) as a form of punishment or as a part of sex; I do not condone the forcible rape of a child (or woman). Rape, is an act of violence, therefore a crime, but it is emphatically not sex. Having consensual sex is not a crime nor is it a sin. A view held by any right-thinking person. I am inserting here a copy of guidelines about adult-child loving or sexual relationships and a copy of the Declaration of Sexual rights. These are to be considered only a basic concept and must be expanded upon.
(* My added emphasis throughout)
The Dutch Society for Sexual Reform (NVSH) proposed the following four guidelines:
• Self-Determination: *Children must always have it in their own power to regulate their own sexuality, their relationships with others and their own lives.
• Initiative: Even in a later stage of the relationship, it is always the *children who make the choice to have sex.
• Freedom: At any moment within the relationship with an adult, *children must have the freedom to withdraw from the relationship.
• Openness: The *child should not have to carry unreasonable secrets
Declaration of sexual rights
The following sexual rights were adopted at the 14th World Congress of sexologists in Hong Kong 1999:
 The right to sexual equality, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, *age, class, religion or handicap.
 The right to sexual liberty, the full expression of sexual possibilities without force, exploitation, or abuse at *any age.
 The right to sexual pleasure as a source of well-being.
 The right to correct sexual information and education for all social categories *and ages.
 The right to sexual self determination, free from violence, torture, mutilation.
 The right to sexual privacy, free from false accusations, house searching or deprivation of property.
 The right to reproductive choice with full access to proper contraception and abortion services.
 The right to choose sexual partners, the right to divorce and cohabitation without marriage.
 The right to sexual health and the availability of help to prevent and treat sexual dysfunctions.

Please note; I am not an atheist; I am an agnostic. I believe that there is a God, but that is the full extent of my religion. I am not a ‘church goer’ or a ‘bible thumper’; I am a man of simple beliefs, although I have intensively studied the scriptures of many religions.

1. Christianity and Judaism
a. Here are some interesting verses:
These are views of women based on biblical passages (Why do I not agree? I believe in the special nature of the girl child or in fact of any child.)
i. “The birth of a daughter is a loss” (Ecclesiastics 22:3). –WRONG: the birth of ANY child is a good thing.
ii. “A man who educates his son will be the envy of his enemy.” (Ecclesiastics 30:3) – ONLY IF HE ALSO EDUCATES HIS GIRL CHILDREN
iii. “Your daughter is headstrong? Keep a sharp look-out that she does not make you the laughing stock of your enemies, the talk of the town, the object of common gossip, and put you to public shame” (Ecclesiastics 42:11). – DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU CONSIDER SHAMEFULL ACTIVITY: Under modern law, just about anything a girl does can be considered shameful in one society or another.
iv. “Keep a headstrong daughter under firm control, or she will abuse any indulgence she receives. Keep a strict watch on her shameless eye; do not be surprised if she disgraces you” (Ecclesiastics 26:10-11). – THIS IS SO WRONG IT DEFIES UNDERSTANDING: This was written to enforce the concept that women and children (especially girl children) are possessions and must live under the absolute control of the dominate male of the household.
v. “As in all the congregations of the saints, women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission as the law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.” (I Corinthians 14:34-35) IT IS GOOD ADVICE TO DISCUSS THINGS WITH YOUR SPOUSE. HOWEVER, TO FORBID THE EXPRESSING OF OPINION? BULLSHIT! Paul of Taurus wrote this verse in his first message to the Corinthians. One must keep in mind that this man was a misogynist. He hated women as independent individuals. He really thought that women were only good for one thing and one thing only and should be considered possessions, not individual people.

Jewish Rabbis made it an obligation for Jewish men to produce offspring in order to propagate the race and to produce sons, not daughters. Note that the New Testament seems to agree with this rather narrow vision of the worth of women. This is in direct contravention of the words of Jesus in the New Testament and the Old Testament writings of God’s acts.

b. The interpretation of modern era biblical scholars
i. Bathsheba, the granddaughter of Ahithophel, David’s famous counselor, was only eight years and eight months of age when her son Solomon was born, while some maintain that she was not older than six (Sanh. 69b). The influence of the * evil tempter of humanity brought about the sinful relation of David and Bathsheba. Bathsheba was making her toilet on the roof of her house behind a screen of wickerwork, when Satan came in the disguise of a bird; David, shooting at it, struck the screen, splitting it; thus, Bathsheba was revealed in her beauty to David (ib. 107a). Bathsheba was providentially destined from the Creation to become in due time the legitimate wife of David; but this relation was immaturely precipitated, and thus he became Bathsheba’s partner in sin (ib.).
Bathsheba is praised for her share in the successful effort to secure the succession to Solomon. Thus the verse in Ecclesiastes 4:9, “Two are better than one,” is applied to David and Bathsheba; while “the threefold cord” which shall not be quickly broken (ib. verse 12) is applied to the activity of Nathan the prophet, who joined in the effort (Eccl. R. iv. 9). For further details, see David in Rabbinical Literature.
(This incorporates text from the public domain 1901-1906 Jewish Encyclopedia.)

2. Hinduism
a. “Tasmat striyam jatam parasyanti ut pumamsam haranti” (Hence they reject a female child when born, and take up a male.) [Taitt. Samh. VI.5.10.3] [Muir I 26]
i. Female infanticide arose from the general Vedic attitude towards women. The large dowries prescribed by the Vedas meant that a girl was seen as a burden. The woman who gave birth to a daughter was ashamed, and much stigma attached to a woman who only gave birth to daughters. Hence, infanticide arose as a convenient way of getting rid of the “burden.” Aryan texts sanction this custom.

3. Child brides approved by Vedas in the Hindu religions
a. “A man, aged thirty years, shall marry a maiden of twelve who pleases him, or a man of twenty-four a girl of eight years of age; if (the performance of) his duties would otherwise be impeded, he must marry sooner.”[Manu IX.94]
b. Child marriage of daughters 5-6 years old was common due to the custom of dowry and to avoid scandals [Nand 17] [Basham 167-8] [Yadav 70] [Altekar 16] [Banerjee 70].

4. Historical understanding of the Love of Children
a. If it comes to the choice of having young lovers, or following the admonitions of modern society, I choose the ancient ways. It was not until the growth of the ‘modern’ interpretation of the scriptures from the bible (mostly the change in religions structures after the revision of the bible at one of the points in history that began the distortions, The Nicene Council of 325 AD. – A formal creed summarizing Christian beliefs; first adopted in 325 and later expanded. See more below)
b. The Koran, The Hebrew Scriptures, and The Hindi religions allowed marriages of polygamous nature, and those where one or more of the partners was below the modern “legal” age of consent, versus the *natural age of consent. These concepts became sins under the modern interpretations of these highly edited texts. In most of the religious works of the world dating back some four or five thousand years (with minor exceptions), you can find the reports of marriages of older men to younger girls. Moreover, the act of marriage in those ancient texts was not reported as a marriage unless the marriage was consummated by the insertion of the male penis into the female vagina. This is what is mistakenly today, called Pedophilia.
c. Even the word Pedophilia (which is a made up word to impress the ignorant, by combining two separate Greek words) has been perverted by modern religions and legal authorities. The actual meaning going back to the ancient Greek of the two words is, “lover of children.”
i. Philia (φιλία philía), means friendship in modern Greek, a dispassionate virtuous love, was a concept developed by Aristotle. It includes loyalty to friends, family, and community, and requires virtue, equality and familiarity.(See 4.d. below for the Arsitotilan interpretation of Philia.)
d. Aristotle argues that there are three kinds of philia, for “not everything is loved, but [only] the lovable, and this is either good or pleasant or useful” (1155b18–19). We can thus distinguish between:
i. Philia based on mutual advantage (love for what is useful).
ii. Philia based on mutual pleasure (love for what is pleasant).
iii. Philia based on mutual admiration (love for what is good).
e. These types are not mutually exclusive; they can overlap. The third kind will usually involve the other two kinds too, and is, he argues, the best of the three. Mutual admiration involves the nature of the other person, not simply how they affect you (being useful or fun to be with), and is also, therefore, more likely to last (“for if someone is no longer pleasant or useful, the other stops loving him” [1156a21–22]). Moreover, philia of the third kind is good in itself, whereas philia of the first two kinds, by themselves, might involve the mutual advantage between those involved in terrorism or the mutual pleasure of those involved in child abuse — relationships that are bad in themselves.
f. “Now it is possible for bad people as well [as good] to be friends to each other for pleasure or utility, for decent people to be friends to base people, and for someone with neither character to be a friend to someone with any character. Clearly, however, only good people can be friends to each other because of the other person himself; for bad people find no enjoyment in one another if they get no benefit.” (1157a18–21)

g. You will notice that in the Greek below the word child (παιδί) and the word for love (αγαπώ) appear together in the most positive terms. Moreover, that the word for child when coupled with the word for abuse (κακοποιώ) selects the most grievous form of the word.

i. παιδί = child
ii. αγαπώ του παιδιά = love of the children
iii. αγαπώ = love
iv. παιδί κακοποιώ = child abuser
v. κακοποιώ, κακομεταχειρίζομαι, καταχρώμαι, εκμεταλλεύομαι = abuse
h. From a comparison of the Greek language use of the words we find that the modern interpretation of pedophilia (pedo = child  philia = love) is, in every respect, wrong. (If this interpretation is correct, then the American people have a city that is dedicated to the incestuous act of sexually loving an oracle; Philadelphia.)
i. Modern interpretation = One who sexually abuses children
ii. Ancient (*true) interpretation = One who loves children
(It is a shame that the prudish, ungodly people who write laws are so stupid that they use words they do not understand.)
i. Even if we also misinterpret the second definition of “Philia based on mutual pleasure (love for what is pleasant)…” (4.d.ii above) and we follow their assumption that sex for a child of any age is unpleasent, we find that all of medical knowledge, physchological thinking, biblical writing and historical writing put the lie to their interpretation. They have formed these laws and opinions out of their own *PERSONAL and *PERVERTED predjudices (although they try to cite religious, medical or legal history as support).
Most people who believe that sex with children is a) morally wrong, b) illegal and c) harmfull to the child, when pressed, admit they have such fantasies themselves but feel shame because they were taught that this kind of loving is dirty or hateful.

Nowhere in any of the ancient historical, religious or legal texts does one find a condemnation of someone marrying and/or having sex with a child or woman of any age. But, in almost every instance, there is a great condemnation of those who would abuse a child. Inflicting harm on a child to see them suffer, thereby giving the person inflicting the harm pleasure, is wrong – THIS IS NOT PEDOPHILIA!! IT IS ABUSE, PLAIN AND SIMPLE. THE AGE OF THE VITICM IS NOT RELEVANT!!

Even as far back as the Code of Hammarabi (circa 1780BCE) we find strong condemnation of those who would torture someone for pleasure. And this was from a society that approved of child sacrifice in their religious rights!
The separation of harm from sex is essential in sexual activity at any age and especially with children.
When we view people labeled “Child molesters”, are we viewing them as people who inflict themselves on an unwilling child? If so, we need to understand that this is an act of violence; not sex or love. It is the same confusion that the modern world has with the crime of rape; it is interpreted as a ‘sex crime.’ Ask any victim and they will tell you that sex has little to do with the crime; it is an act of violation, of injury and of humiliation. The very naming of this despicable act as a sex crime is an affront to all of its victims.

Sex is the sharing of a very intimate part of ones body and self with another, not just the mating of the gential organs of reproduction. It is the joining of two people for the purpose of giving and receiving pleasure or the union of a man and woman in the attempt to produce a child. The calling of rape a ‘sex crime’ is a clear reflection of the view of modern society that sex is dirty and therefore should be treated as something unworthy of polite society. And since women are the accepted sex objects they are, by implication, dirty and therefore should be kept from polite society. This view is propagated by the churches of the modern era to maintain the status of women as chattel and therefore the property of man.
For many years women, young and old, were treated as chattel (and in some countries still are). Under these type of laws women, young or old, had NO RIGHT to refuse to have sex. Furthermore, many other rights that belong to all humankind were denied under this concept. Once married or bethrothed, or a child in a family, a female became the property of the male; to do with as he wished. Under these laws, all of the females in his house hold had no right of refusal. To correct this unfair treatment the pendulum of law swung to the extreme other end of reason. Men have no right to sex outside the confines of marriage as defined under the law (marriage is still a bondage on the woman), and since women were not able to think or hold opinions, still being chattel, they had no right to consent or refuse to any form of sex at any age.
Sufferage was a hard won battle for women, but they had to trade off their very right to make decisions at any age to achieve it; under this concept they are not legally allowed to make any decision about their own body, or anything else, until such time as they come of ‘legal’ age. Then they were married off and became the chattel of their husbands (That age varies from country to country, region to region. In some countries the women are still no more that possessions.)

5. Man’s perverted interpretation of God’s Acts.
If we investigate the progress from historical legal and religious acceptance of young wives and lovers to the modern condemnation of these things we find that the condemnations are influenced by acts of man; not Acts of God. The very things we are condemned for today were standard practice in most religions up to and even after the Nicene council of 325AD (man’s greatest attempt to pervert his religon to fit his own perverted outlook on life. Note: these were already very perverted men.) Keep in mind that if you are a Christian you must abide by the saying of Christ, “Suffer the little children to come unto me…Woe be unto anyone that harms a hair of their heads. It would be better that he have a millstone hung from his neck and cast into the sea, than to face the justice of my Father.” He understood that the love of a child could be on many levels; parent-child, friend-friend, man-woman, lover-lover, and man-wife. It is instinctive in a child to love. He also made it clear; the inflicting of harm on a child is the paramount evil. This is the same rabbi, prophet, or Son of God, call him what you will, that gave his blessing to the marriage in Cannan of a man and his 13 year old bride.

It is worthy to note that according to the “Oxford Dictionary Bible” commentary, Mary, the mother of Jesus, was 12 years old when she became impregnated. Since Christians believe that she was impregnated by the spirit of God, then under the current American and other countries laws; God is a child molesting pervert. (“Of course,” one United States District Attorney said, “the statute of limitations has expired so there can be no case.”)
From the Old Testament and the Talmud we read;
Said Rabbi Joseph, “Come and take note: A girl three years and one day old is betrothed by intercourse. And if a Levi has had intercourse with her, he has acquired her. And one can be liable on her account because of the law prohibiting intercourse with a married woman. And she imparts uncleanness to him who has intercourse with her when she is menstruating, to convey uncleanness to the lower as to the upper layer [of what lies beneath]. If she was married to a priest, she may eat food in the status of priestly rations. If one of those who are unfit for marriage with her had intercourse with her, he has rendered her unfit to marry into the priesthood. If any of those who are forbidden in the Torah to have intercourse with her had intercourse with her, he is put to death on her account, but she is free of responsibility [M.Nid. 5:4].
Sanhedrin 7/55B

Just as most honest pyschologists will tell you that the sexual awakening of a child begins the first time its mother or father washes its genitals; the child learns that this kind of touching produces pleasure. And many children will actively investigate their own sexuality while still in diapers. That is until the tendency is beaten or freightened out of them. “Shame on you! That is dirty. Keep your hands out of your dirty area.” As a parallel to this change in attitude toward sex, we can look to the changes in the churches of the modern era. Remember that MOST modern laws are based on what is refered to as ‘Christian Morals’.

A Brief History of Celibacy in the Catholic Church (most of the information below was taken directly from a Catholic site.)
(This helps to understand the change in attitude about marriage and sex. Never expect someone denied either or both to claim the goodness of either or both. Remember that the concept of celibacy, if one is guided by the bible, is NOT one of God’s commandments. His only direct remark on the act of procreation was given in Genesis, “Go forth, multiply and be fruitful.” God never intended that celibacy be a requirement of his priests – that was man’s idea.)

First Century
Peter, the first pope, and the apostles that Jesus chose were, for the most part, married men. The New Testament implies that women presided at Eucharistic meals in the early church.

Second and Third Century
Age of Gnosticism: light and spirit are good, darkness and material things are evil. A person cannot be married and be perfect. However, most priests were married.

In 385AD, Pope Siricius wrote the following.

Pope Siricius Letter in 385AD

13. Whoever, therefore, vows himself to the services of the Church from his infancy ought to be baptized before the years of puberty and attached to the ministry of readers. From the beginning of adolescence up to thirty years of age, he ought to be an acolyte and subdeacon, if he lives properly, content with only one wife whom he received as a virgin with a public benediction by a priest. Subsequently he should advance to the grade of deacon, if first, with continence leading the way, he proves himself worthy.
If he performs this ministry laudably for more than five years, he should attain the priesthood. From there, after a decade, he is able to reach the Episcopal office, provided that during these times the integrity of his life and faith was demonstrated.

14. But he who, having been called to the conversion of a better way of life already advanced in years, is in a hurry to move from the laity to the sacred militia, will not otherwise obtain the fruit of his desire unless when baptized he is attached at once to the rank of readers or exorcists, if, that is, it is clear that he had or has one wife and that he received her as a virgin. Two years after his initiation having elapsed, he can be made an acolyte and subdeacon for five more, and thus can be advanced to the diaconate, if during these times he was judged worthy. Then subsequently, with the passage of time, if election of the clergy and people designates him, he justly can obtain the priesthood and the episcopate.

Nothing there, that says they were differing from the instructions of Paul.

N.B. it is important to note that he must receive his wife as a ‘virgin’ to be in the priesthood. But, there is nothing said about his being a virgin. Nor is the age of the wife discussed.

Let’s read Pope Leo the Great in 440AD

Leo was made Pope in 440AD
III. The Apostolic Precept About the Marriage of the Clergy Based upon the Marriage of Christ with the Church of Which It is a Figure.

For as the Apostle says that among other rules for election he shall be ordained bishop who is known to have been or to be “the husband of one wife,” this command was always held so sacred that the same condition was understood as necessary to be observed even in the wife of the priest-elect: lest she should happen to have been married to another man before she entered into wedlock with him, even though he himself had had no other wife.
Who then would dare to allow this injury to be perpetrated upon so great a sacrament, seeing that this great and venerable mystery is not without the support of the statutes of God’s law as well, whereby it is clearly laid down that a priest is to marry a virgin, and that she who is to be the wife of a priest is not to know another husband? For even then in the priests was prefigured the Spiritual marriage of Christ and His Church: so that since “the man is the head of the woman ,” the spouse of the Word may learn to know no other man but Christ, who did rightly choose her only, loves her only, and takes none but her into His alliance. If then even in the Old Testament this kind of marriage among priests is adhered to, how much more ought we who are placed under the grace of the Gospel to conform to the Apostle’s precepts: so that though a man be found endowed with good character, and furnished with holy works, he may nevertheless in no wise ascend either to the grade of deacon, or the dignity of the presbytery, or to the highest rank of the bishopric, if it has been spread abroad either that he himself is not the husband of one wife, or that his wife is not the wife of one husband.

Pope Leo seems to confirm what Paul said.

Fourth Century
306-Council of Elvira, Spain, decree #43: a priest who sleeps with his wife the night before Mass will lose his job.
325-Council of Nicea: decreed that after ordination a priest could not marry.
Proclaimed the Nicene Creed.
352-Council of Laodicea: women are not to be ordained. This suggests that before this time there was ordination of women and indeed ordination of women continued until late in the 14th century. Women are being ordained in modern times by many churches. The Roman Catholic Church still denies this equality to women.
385-Pope Siricius left his wife in order to become pope. Decreed that priests may no longer sleep with their wives.

Fifth Century
401-St. Augustine wrote, “Nothing is so powerful in drawing the spirit of a man downwards as the caresses of a woman.”

Sixth Century
567-2nd Council of Tours: any cleric found in bed with his wife would be excommunicated for a year and reduced to the lay state.
580-Pope Pelagius II: his policy was not to bother married priests as long as they did not hand over church property to wives or children.
590-604-Pope Gregory “the Great” said that all sexual desire is sinful in itself (meaning that sexual desire is intrinsically evil?).

Seventh Century
France: documents show that the majority of priests were married.

Eighth Century
St. Boniface reported to the pope that in Germany almost no bishop or priest was celibate.

Ninth Century
836-Council of Aix-la-Chapelle openly admitted that abortions and infanticide took place in convents and monasteries to cover up activities of uncelibate clerics.
St. Ulrich, a holy bishop, argued from scripture and common sense that the only way to purify the church from the worst excesses of celibacy was to permit priests to marry.

Eleventh Century
1045-Pope Benedict IX dispensed himself from celibacy and resigned in order to marry.
1074-Pope Gregory VII said anyone to be ordained must first pledge celibacy: ‘priests [must] first escape from the clutches of their wives.’

1095-Pope Urban II had priests’ wives sold into slavery, children were abandoned.

Twelfth Century
1123-Pope Calistus II: First Lateran Council decreed that clerical marriages were invalid.
1139-Pope Innocent II: Second Lateran Council confirmed the previous council’s decree.

Fourteenth Century
Bishop Pelagio complains that women are still ordained and hearing confessions.

Fifteenth Century
Transition; 50% of priests are married and accepted by the people.

Sixteenth Century
1545-63-Council of Trent states that celibacy and virginity are superior to marriage.

So, in conclusion, I postulate that the act of loving children, even when it involves sex, is approved of by almost every major religion in the world and, furthermore, laws that have been passed against these things were introduced by people who were mentally deficient or, being charitable, wrongly influenced by those who were. On the other hand, if they need an excuse for their stupidity, they can always say, “The Devil made me do it.”

Having sex with a *willing child is not a sin according to *any of the major religions. Nowhere in any scripture of the major religions of the world will one find this act condemned. Therefore, laws founded on the ‘immorality’ of the act are therefore, ill founded.

Many who write laws preventing the Adult-child love relationship mistakenly quote the passage in the New Testament where Jesus says, “Suffer the little children to come unto me…Woe be unto anyone that harms a hair of their heads. It would be better that he have a millstone hung from his neck and cast into the sea, than to face the justice of my Father.” They, through ignorance of scripture, place the loving of a child in the realm of harming a child. (See 5. above about the age of the mother of Jesus of the New Tesstament.) Yet, in many of these same cultures they violate the meaning of this passage by condoning the beating of children for infractions as petty as not carrying out the trash or not picking up their clothes after a bath. My advice to these perverts is; re-read the bible *AS WRITTEN and quit blaming your stupidity on the bible or God.

If we review the civil laws of the nations that contributed the most to modern society, The Persians, The Hebrews, The Egyptians, The Greeks and The Romans, we find that their civil laws had little in the way of restricting the age of consent. It is only the invention of modern man that has made willing sex between two consenting individuals of any age illegal, immoral, and dirty. God (regardless of your name for Him) must be really pissed at humankind for distorting His scriptures and history.

Remember, God called Adam (in the ancient Hebrew Adam means red clay) his son, and Eve (meaning, from man) his daughter. They were the children of His Creation. They were, therefore, both father and child, son and daughter, and brother and sister. One of the first things that he told them was to “multiply and be fruitful.” Oh my, God is a child abuser and encourager of child molestation and abuse… if we judge him by man’s laws. He not only told his children to have sex, he also approved of incest between father and daughter and between brother and sister. Yes, sir, we must immediately call God to stand trial. He must be charged with the most heinous of modern crimes: *LOVING HIS CHILDREN. In addition, according to man’s law, he must be confined as an evil being. Put into a prison where the other prisoners are encouraged to sexually abuse Him and even kill Him. (Gee, didn’t mankind do that once before to the Son of God?)

Yes, sir, I can see where God would really think well of what man has done with the beautiful things He gave to them. Sex is now dirty, children are property and have no right to self-determination, and that humankind is evil for the loving of children.

Please, someone breathe some sanity back into the world. Hey, God, are you listening?

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Sometimes one has to read a passage twice to believe what has been written in the Sacred Books of Judaism: what has been decreed the way to a holy life by the “sages of blessed memory… whose words are the natural sounds of Judaism” [131]:

[131] Ibid., vol.XXI.A-D, Tractate Bava Mesia, Atlanta: Scholars Press 1990, p.ix-x.

When we read the Bible, we learn about Prophets marrying many wives, even hundreds of wives in some cases. Let us look at some of the verses from the Old Testament:
In Genesis 17:17 Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”
This is after he had fathered Ishmael on Hagar, the serving girl of his wife. There are many views on the age of Hagar when she was given to Abraham by his wife Sarah; some scholars place her age as great as forty and some as young as ten. It is really of no importance of her correct age, but her age in relation to Abraham who was one-hundred years of age. This would put Hagar in percentages a maximum of 40% of Abraham’s age, and at the youngest 10%. So, if we look at that ratio as being a guide of the acceptance of God for the ages of consent, we find that the man could look with sexual feelings on a female between 10 and 40% of his age and still be in God’s good graces.
In Exodus 21:10, a man can marry an infinite amount of women without any limits to how many he can marry.
In 2 Samuel 5:13; 1 Chronicles 3:1-9, 14:3, King David had six wives and numerous concubines. *The youngest wife was 6. The youngest concubine was 9.
In 1 Kings 11:3, King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. Ages from 5 to 80.
In 2 Chronicles 11:21, King Solomon’s son Rehoboam had 18 wives and 60 concubines. Ages from 8 to 40.
Knowing that the Bible’s Old Testament allowed for men to have sex with girls who were at the age of 3, it wouldn’t surprise me that those Prophets who had 700 wives for instance, had many very young “teenage or younger” girls as their wives.
There are many sources for the materials that are use in this paper. I am purposely not putting in a bibliography (although I listed the source for some quotes); if you want to know the facts, you must do your own research. It is easy to discount someone else’s sources as not valid, it is much harder to discount them when you have found them yourself. If you look, you can find the references available in the public domain; some are given by the right-wingers, some by left-wingers, some by highly religious people, and some by atheists, some by agnostics, and some by the faithful of their beliefs. It is important to understand that I did not cull these references from a single source; I reached as widely as I could within the limits of the premise of the paper for my facts.

One last question; Are you on the side of God or man? Or on the side of the children?

I don’t condone any abuse whatsoever. The problem I’m posting about on this topic and a plague through out many other forums is copy catting, one person makes a post and all the replies are in compliance in a different way of saying the same thing. Why doesn’t anyone gather solid evidence and create a new view point whatever it may be, I just get sick of all the posts on a page with the same view point as the original poster, and people think they get told the truth on American tv HAH, learn to do your own reasearch and get your own opinion. Peace out.

most child porn is produced and used by “children” so they’ll have to ban cell phones, facebook and such

Dear Veronica,
I have read your posting twice, and am very disturbed. I do not know who abused you, but it is time that you came to grips with it. Most of what you talked about in your posting has nothing to do with child pornography but has a lot to do with the abuse of girls.
You have displayed a deep antipathy toward men, from what I believe is your own victimization. Now, I may be wrong, but it seems to me that you are under the impression that brains are not provided to females until that have reached a specific age, and that prior to that sudden acquisition of thought power, they are incapable of making any decision by themselves. It seems fairly obvious that you have never taken a child of any age shopping, and that when you were taken as a child you were told what you wanted and what you would get. And I think that it is fairly obvious that if you expressed any reluctance to go along with the choices you were subjected to the wrath of the adult who controlled you. You were brought up to be a ‘proper young lady’. Interpreted as meaning a brainless Barbie doll until you reached that mystical age of majority.
There have been recorded cases of children giving birth as young as the age of five. But, the few documented cases were the result of a loving, and sometimes, life-long relationship. There is, indeed, a difference between a loving relationship and abuse. Rape is not a sex crime, it is a crime of violence. People who rape anyone are not committing an act of sex, they are committing an act of violence. It seems from your choice of phrasing that you were such a victim. Do not blame it on pornography, child or adult, it was the act of a vicious man who had absolutely no love for you or anyone else.
Child pornography – the phrase itself is a bit misleading. Pornography is defined as; creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire. This is a rather crude definition but partially accurate. While Child pornography is defined as; the illegal use of children in pornographic pictures or films. The operative word here is illegal. If you do not want others to do something you make a law against it. That does not make the law right, it only makes the act illegal.
So long as a child is not forced into such activity and has the power to say ‘No.’ There should be no crime. But, when someone strikes out from their own pain, they sometimes strike at the nearest or easiest target. Pick your target better, face the man who has hurt you so badly. If you are fearful, take someone with you that you trust to provide a safety net. But, do not condemn something that you have little or no knowledge of.
That said, please, keep posting your comments. In this world everyone has a right to an opinion, and the right to speak it.