(January 28, 2017 at 6:43 pm)Jesster Wrote: I get where you're coming from with this. Honestly, the only difference I've ever seen is what their god says they deserve. The only reason they don't believe people deserve to be raped is because their book doesn't say that. If it did, they would jump to that just as easily.
Of course, they always seem to say that it's not them making the judgement; it's their god. They just happen to worship that god anyway. Even if I did believe that a god existed, I wouldn't have anything to do with anyone who made that kind of judgement. It's sick.
But the Bible implies it's OK to rape.
In Numbers 31 (and other passages) the Israelites were allowed to take female captives from nations they conquered.
Apologists say that they were not taken to be raped, but why else would they "take" captured females?
We know from our own times, that females in war situations are often raped.
“The problem with those who choose received Authority over fact and logic is how they choose which part of Authority to obey. The Bible famously contradicts itself at many points (I have never understood why any Christian would choose the Old Testament over the New), and the Koran can be read as a wonderfully compassionate and humanistic document. Which suggests that the problem of fundamentalism lies not with authority, but with ourselves.” ~Molly Ivins
