TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote:However, unlike slavery, even prisoners (ALL prisoners) have defined rights and a defined sentence that they can live out and leave once over except in cases of a life sentence or death penalty.
the bible gives slaves rights as well. they have to obey their masters, but it doesn't take away from their rights.
TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote:The bible cherry picks these rights for specific individuals essentially based on groups of people god feels shouldn't be slaves (in other words, family, countrymen, and god's cronies. The rest get whatever they get.
the bible doesn't cherry pick. a lot have a choice and a lot don't. i agree that people don't always get what they diserve. they get what they get but the important thing isn't what you're given; the important thing is what you do with what you're given.
some people used to think that people born blind must have done something wrong do deserve it but that's not true at all. they were born with a defect but it's not important what they have it's important what they do with it.
TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote:Why would a loving husband beat his wife? I don't know as I'm the last person who would ever do such a thing, but ... they do and they still claim to love their wife.
yes but the point i was trying to make is that it doesn't show that they love them. in the bible it teaches that you should not just do good, but look good. if you are not doing anything wrong but to everyone that sees it looks like it, then somethings wrong.
TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote:All the bible does is force a woman into a life with a man that has 100% of the power in the relationship and virtually all of the rights.
this is why you're not supposed to rape. this is not God's intentions. what happened for almost every marriage in the bible is the person asked the parents of the woman and they would decide if he's the right person. the woman didn't have the choice because they wanted to take away the woman's rights but because the parents are looking out for her best interests. she may not be able to see what's in her best interest like the parents do.
TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote:Compound this with the "marry your rapist" part of the bible and try to see where the woman might be in terms of happiness with her husband.
like i said, it may not make her very happy but if he didn't marry her no one else would want to. she would have no purpose and would live with her parrents until they died and possibly resort to prostitution. this is worse than a life with the man.
TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote:"Not getting beaten" and "not being sold into worse slavery" is littl solace compared to being married to someone who is only married to you because he forced himself on you.
hold on. who says a person has to rape their slave to marry them? what if they marry them because they love them? what's wrong with this?
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
-4th verse of the american national anthem
