Young’s Literal Translation
‘When a man findeth a damsel, a virgin who is not betrothed, and hath caught her, and lain with her, and they have been found,
http://bible.cc/deuteronomy/22-28.htm
As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.
http://www.evilbible.com/Rape.htm
My background is agnosticsm, christianity, and libertarian. So consider this a lense rather than the facto answer.
Here is my libertarian side speaking:
1. In NO culture, women own themselves. In US, for example, women cannot be a prostitute. That means the state, rather than the women, has power to decide what women can do. In a sense, effectively, the state, own the women. Told you I am a libertarian.
2. If women fully own themselves, they will all choose brad pit Image may be NSFW.
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3. In ancient time Israel does have debtor jail. It’s called slavery. Those who rape and can’t pay will be slave. What else do we expect?
4. In polygamistic society, women bride price are very expensive. Only the rich can get married and women prefer the rich anyway. I bet daddy took into account how hot daughtie is in measuring the bride price.
Now my atheist part is speaking
1. I don’t know whether God prohibit porn or homosexuality or not. Yahweh, the jewish God, is very different than God christians believe. Actually God christians believe is closer to Plato’s God or even Chinese’ Shang Ti. I do not know how much God wrote the bible.
2. People are homophobic and interpret scripture to fit their agenda. Those who are different than us vote for different party in election. That sucks for them. So they want that prohibited.
3. People interpret religions in ways that are politically correct. So I would expect christians will simply try to rationalize this forced to marry women. So most christians will say it’s not really happen, or it doesn’t applicable anymore. It’s called politically correct filter. They don’t teach this in sunday schools.
4. Morality is just the will of those who are in power. If your daughter got rape that means you’re weak anyway and you sort of “deserve” it. Learn kung fu next time. That’s the essence of all ancient religions. Really. All the killing of those who are different or believe differently are simply the killing of those who are weak and lootable. This explain away all genocide in the name of religion from Israelites genocide against the Canaites and German genocide against jews.
5. To be fair toward religion, without religion people would kill each other too. The athenes also kill and loot those they defeated in war. So, it’s really impractical to expect a culture to behave differently than the rest among wolves. Such culture will just go extinct.
Now my christian part want to say something:
Well, nothing. I don’t know. What to say.
Perhaps, God just want to be reasonable. In which case there is no way to know whether something is from God or from beer drinking corrupt political leaders. I wish I can know.
Does God condone rape? is a post from: Free Market Forever
