Christian Radio Host: Rape Victims Who Dress Like “Sluts” Are “Asking For It”
Right-wing Christian radio host Jesse Lee Peterson, who has claimed that it was generally a "big mistake to educate women" and that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may have wanted to get raped during the Trump-inspired January 6 insurrection, spent part of yesterday's show literally victim-blaming sexual assault victims:
... If you walk around looking like a slut, in some little tight dress all up your legs, and you get raped, that's your fault. You're asking for it!
You should do it... dress modest... modest... modestly. [Off-mike: Is that how you say it?] Modestly! Then you won't get raped.
One nice lady [on a previous episode] said that rape was for power. It's about power. No it's not! That's another lie that's been told to you. Rape is not about power. Rape is about having sex.
When a man is raping a woman, he's not thinking, "Ooh, I'm about to get power."
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021...ng-for-it/
Right-wing Christian radio host Jesse Lee Peterson, who has claimed that it was generally a "big mistake to educate women" and that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may have wanted to get raped during the Trump-inspired January 6 insurrection, spent part of yesterday's show literally victim-blaming sexual assault victims:
... If you walk around looking like a slut, in some little tight dress all up your legs, and you get raped, that's your fault. You're asking for it!
You should do it... dress modest... modest... modestly. [Off-mike: Is that how you say it?] Modestly! Then you won't get raped.
One nice lady [on a previous episode] said that rape was for power. It's about power. No it's not! That's another lie that's been told to you. Rape is not about power. Rape is about having sex.
When a man is raping a woman, he's not thinking, "Ooh, I'm about to get power."
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021...ng-for-it/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
