The nature of my objection? You read those verses and you ask about the nature of my objection? You want me to “show logically why Christians should feel that verses that disagree with contemporary culture should be seen as evidence against understanding the reality of God,”. First, this thread was about women wanting to be Christians. I’m a woman and I was Christian. I gave a list of scriptures that make me not want to go back. Second, this was not me trying to give you evidence about the non-reality of God, but rather his cruelty and stupidity if he existed. That is where my objections rest.
Do I really have to explain what my objection is? If you told me that God sent you to take my city and you consider me plunder to use as you wish, I’d laugh at you. Then I’d kill you in self defense.
Quote:Deuteronomy 20:14, 15 As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
Do I really have to explain what my objection is? If you told me that God sent you to take my city and you consider me plunder to use as you wish, I’d laugh at you. Then I’d kill you in self defense.
Quote:Deuteronomy 25:11 If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.If some dude is fighting with my husband and I wish to defend him by grabbing his balls, I deserve to be laughed at, not chopped. How can I express my objection?
Quote:Deuteronomy 28: 30 You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her.If God gets mad at someone because he did not keep the covenant, he will allow the wife to be raped as punishment. I object. Why can’t the guy be raped by the person who wrote this?
Quote:Deuteronomy 22: 13 to 19 If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,” then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin. Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, and the elders shall take the man and punish him. They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives. If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.I object to everything, but what bothers me the most is the proof part. You do know that some virgins will never have proof, right? An intact hymen is not always possible. So, what then? If I had a daughter with no intact hymen I’d have to kill her? I object. How do you want me to put it so it sounds logical?
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Half Baked
"Let the atheists come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of heathens belongs to people like these." -Saint Bacon
Half Baked
"Let the atheists come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of heathens belongs to people like these." -Saint Bacon