Rape in the Bible

[abaris]

interesting side note: as with so many Bible stories, there are pagan parallels to this. The whole story about Baucis and Philemon was about Gods visiting mortals to see how they would be treated

There's always one. How do you think, they came up with the supernatural excrement anyway?

[JonDarbyXIII]

speaking of supernatural excrement: http://theheathensguide.com/crazy-zeke/

[abaris]

speaking of supernatural excrement: http://theheathensguide.com/crazy-zeke/

Funny, but it has it's rather sad real life equivalents. There has been a so called saint, spending decades on top of a column. Can you even begin to imagine the filthy bugger? And can you begin to imagine the ground underneath him?

[JonDarbyXIII]

now that's disturbing... though i guess it's no worse than Noah flinging poo from millions of animals out of a single window for months

[abaris]

now that's disturbing... though i guess it's no worse than Noah flinging poo from millions of animals out of a single window for months

Symeon Stylites for example. He was for real. Some retard giving up his life for the greater glory of nothing.

And there are again ancient role models. Funnily enough in the cult of Dyonysos, whom I thought to be a rather pleasant god.

[Nope]

I am pretty certain that this site is not parody. Apparently, the writer believes that rape is not unlawful for a husband but not a wise thing to do. The woman who refuses to have sex is sinful.

http://www.deepstrength.wordpress.com/20...pe-or-not/

Actually he comes to the final conclusion that "forcing sex on the spouse is a sin."

This is what the writer stated that this about marital rape

In summary, regarding the possibility of “forced” sex in a Christian marriage:

One spouse is in sin (the one refusing) and one is not (the one doing the forcing),
but both are not walking according to the Spirit of Christianity and one flesh.

and

f a Christian husband or wife wants to force themselves on their spouse then they are more like a Pharisee (obey the letter of the law) than Jesus (He who embodies the Spirit of the law). As Christians, even though we know it is lawful, we want to be like Jesus.

That’s the reason why forcing sex on the spouse is a sin. It’s a sin of hypocrisy.

So, he definitely believes that refusing sex is a sin so in marital rape, the victim will be at fault for saying no. According to the writer, the attacker may or may not be sinning. He contradicts himself

[h4ym4n]

Just for a moment assume God was good and had an eye on the furture. What if he knew a people with a certain genetic trait or a certain mental disipline would indeed be the destruction of the world? would it not be better to destroy those people before they destroyed everything and everyone else?

Omni what?

[FatAndFaithless]

....if god is going to intervene that directly, why not just change the genetic trait to something benign instead of murdering the people who had no choice in inheriting it? God sounds like kind of a dick.

[robvalue]

People keep putting arbitrary obstacles and restrictions on the super being to make out he is having to compromise in some way.

He made the rules people! Well, he didn't. But you say he did.

[Chad32]

Benevolent people don't destroy everyone they don't like. They try to improve society so those types of people either aren't around or don't have the power to do much harm. One of the primary aspects of love is putting others before yourself, so I'm not sure how Yahweh can be described as a god of love.