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Why would any woman want to be Christian?
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RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian?
(March 5, 2013 at 7:02 pm)jstrodel Wrote: This is a total misreading of scripture. This shows that you are just cut and pasting difficult passages without even considering the context or what scripture intends to say. The Old Testament condemns rape with the death penalty, see Deut 28.

You may want to read a bit earlier than that:

Deuteronomy 22:28-29 Wrote:If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

See a cute virgin (hence, not married, and so raping a woman who has no master [another word for husband] is not a capital crime), she doesn't want you, just rape her and she is all yours. And not only don't you need to pay the normal 100 shekels, but you get her at a 50% discount!.

(Rabbis later added a restriction to the law that he also has to pay the full amount upon marriage as well. This would reduce the idea of a discount bride.)

And since a woman cannot divorce her husband, she is stuck with him until he tires of her and divorces her. He can always remarry without a divorce. She cannot. (That state is called agunah and is still a problem when an asshole wants to extort the woman to get out of the marriage.)

God either liked the idea that women are property to use and abuse, (selling daughters into slavery is another big moneymaker in the bible), or he didn't foresee that his chosen people would be such jerks.
“I've done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"— Ned Flanders
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RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian? - by EGross - March 7, 2013 at 6:24 am
RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian? - by John V - March 8, 2013 at 12:03 pm
RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian? - by John V - March 12, 2013 at 7:58 am
RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian? - by Fruity - March 11, 2013 at 1:18 am
RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian? - by EGross - March 12, 2013 at 2:30 am
RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian? - by EGross - March 12, 2013 at 8:45 am
RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian? - by John V - March 12, 2013 at 9:21 am
RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian? - by EGross - March 12, 2013 at 9:48 am
RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian? - by John V - March 12, 2013 at 10:14 am
RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian? - by EGross - March 12, 2013 at 10:26 am
RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian? - by John V - March 12, 2013 at 11:17 am
RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian? - by EGross - March 12, 2013 at 12:31 pm
RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian? - by John V - March 12, 2013 at 12:41 pm
RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian? - by EGross - March 12, 2013 at 12:52 pm
RE: Why would any woman want to be Christian? - by John V - March 13, 2013 at 8:29 am

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