RE: GOD RAPED MARY
November 18, 2017 at 7:44 am
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2017 at 7:45 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Quote:I'm not saying it's out and out rape, but I am saying this isn't what anyone nowadays would call clear consent, either. If a very overbearing father tells his 12 year old daughter that he's going to impregnate her, she might have the same response. Would we call it consent, then?
The glaring difference is that a modern 12 year old isn't able to give consent. Mary, on the other hand, was already engaged to Joseph when the angel appeared, so she was clearly old enough (at the time) to give consent.
According to the account in Luke, Mary didn't resist, she didn't seem afraid at the news - she merely asked how a virgin could be made pregnant. And, as a soon to be bride, it seems silly to presume that getting knocked up and giving birth held any special terrors for her.
Sorry, but you'll really have to go all round the houses for the story to depict a rape, statutory or otherwise.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson