>>17813281>Cousin marriage is banned in Catholicism>The Pope said the Bible forbade it.So, it's a question of a hidden doctrine, somewhere in Scripture. It follows then that Catholics would not pay attention to this esoteric law knowing they give more importance to what the Church says and not literal interpretation.
>Its Jews who practiced first degree cousin marriage while Catholics did not.From where do you draw this belief? Just because it's "somewhere in Scripture" doesn't mean the masses didn't do that in spades. You'd be surprised to know even staunch believers didn't and do not consult the Bible to follow any action with piety, more considering cousin marriages were arrangements to keep inheritance law within families or secure the wealth or prosperity of the couple.
n Balzac, in one of his novels, the female protagonist falls in love with her first cousin, and there is no mention of any objection appealing to the supposed moral evils of incest. I don't believe any mention of sin is ever said, which is surprising, and it's not a novel of adultery or anything scandalous; Balzac was a notorious conservative. It just leads me to believe incest was normalized in lower and bourgeouis society.
I think you suffer from the common fallacy of believing that, because some sector professes a certain belief now, it must have been true retrospectively. Believe it or not religion adapts to cultural conditions as much as the latter does to the former. Germanic barbarians continued to sack villages despite conversion, to just name an example.
>inb4 a novel isn't history.The author is a walking document of bourgeouis France during the 19th century.