(March 24, 2018 at 6:34 am)alpha male Wrote:(March 23, 2018 at 5:10 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: (my emphasis)
What about these verses?
The passage shows that they weren't into sex with children. The scenario is of a poor family which needs money. If the daughter were of marriageable age (puberty), they would give her to a husband for the bride price. That they don't do such indicates that the girl was not yet old enough for marriage, and that the law drew this distinction. As your commentary says, An Israelite father could sell his unmarried daughters into servitude, with the expectation or understanding that the master or his son could eventually marry her (as in Exodus 21:7-11.) It is understood by Jewish and Christian commentators that this referred to the sale of a daughter, who "is not arrived to the age of twelve years and a day, and this through poverty."
Until of age, the girl was a slave, but not a sex slave as just explained.
Once of age, either the man or one of his sons could marry her. At such time she became a wife with full rights, and was no longer a slave. Note that her rights were protected: "If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marriage rights." Interestingly, her marriage rights - i.e. her rights to sex from the husband - were protected. That's not a provision you would expect for a sex slave. "And if he does not do these three for her, then she shall go out free." Again, that's not the right of a slave, this was the normal right of a wife.
The only way you can call this sex slavery is if you think of arranged marriages as sex slavery. Over 50% of marriages worldwide today are arranged.
(March 23, 2018 at 6:18 pm)Khemikal Wrote: They engaged in genocide on pretext.
What's your evidence of that?
DUDE you are making a fool out of yourself.
SLAVERY was common in antiquity. FORCED MARRIAGE was common in antiquity. PERIOD!
That old book of mythology reflects the beliefs of the people that lived BACK THEN. It has no value in today's world in the context of our modern society.
Nobody is singling you out or your religion out.
THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW.
