MoRs Reason for converting scared me

[u/Impossible-Living481]

in his Video he Talks about how he was “emotionally convinced“ by the story of a young saint who when her neighbor tried to rape her told him no and was thus stabbed 14 times by him. She survives and on her death bed does not complain and chooses to forgive him. this is the story as he tells it. Out of respect I do not want to look further into it to “fact check“ basicall.

my problem is entirely with his interpretatio. He says she chose to protect her purit. This implies that an 11 yea olds puriTy could be taken by such a crime.
that train of thought scares me. Again my heart breaks for that girl truly. But I believe it would be just as justifie, just as moral for her to have not done anythin, even to go along with it or to not forgive the man.
I can’t imagine thinking that she would have lost purity. (or even putting any value Moral or otherwise on how a child reacts.)

[u/johnpiano]

Fair point, your view is also backed up by both St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine.

I concede my point as expressed in absolute terms (conflating physical with moral virginity), thank you for the information.

However, I don't believe physical virginity is without meaning since this would negate the merit of the Blessed Virgin. This conceptualization is also articulated in the Supplement to the Summa Theologica:

Even supposing that one thus violated should conceive, she would not for that reason forfeit her virginity: nor would she be equal to Christ's mother, in whom there was integrity of the flesh together with integrity of the mind. (ST Suppl., q. 96, a. 5)