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Evidence, please. Also yes, there are criminal Christians, who commit all kinds of atrocities. But it's AGAINST THEIR RELIGION to do so, unlike that guy buying a 9-year-old wife.

According to the Bible, Mary and Joseph's ages are unspecified. According to apocryphal accounts, Mary may have been "between 12-14" while Joseph was 90. Now that the issue makes sense to you with an appropriate analogy, I'd like to ask you what Joseph and Mary's age has to do with religion at all? I personally have no religious motivation to seek out the ages of these religious figures so exactly through the use of apocryphal accounts. I prefer my primary sources (Bible, Quran, Torah) when discussing religion and I treat apocryphal texts like journalism, it is way easier to twist meanings and narratives over there but it is a necessary part of the canon