[Serious] PSA: Rape Apologetics

[Rev. Rye]

I neither think women are property or defend rape and I believe both those mis characterizations are exactly the type of straw meaning that leads to further communication problems and mischaracterization of atheists as a whole

For many mainstream Christians, you are right, but there are some sects that do seem to believe exactly that. Or maybe they say they don't, but it follows more or less directly from both their beliefs on women's rights and their interpretation of Mosaic Law and its applicability to modern life. For the record, I'm not saying you're one of them, and, indeed, the blog post was written by a Christian (a former follower of Bill Gothard, and [at the time he wrote it, at least until Evangelicalism got swallowed into the Trump cult and his disagreements with Evangelical culture hit critical mass] an Evangelical Christian.) He also argues that the Mosaic Law was not God's ideal for what society should be, but His compromise with the mores of the culture of the Levant. You may agree with him or you may disagree, but, frankly, even if it is just as a Watsonian approach reconciling the unchanging word of God to the moral zeitgeist (as opposed to the Doylist approach of just accepting that systems of morality tend to evolve as the human race keeps going on), it at least makes sense.