If you read the text, the guy got caught. And if someone just raped or seduced, say, your 5 year old daughter, would you bother checking into his background?
I consider it outrageous that rape is of no issue, but the status of the ownership of her vagina is really the issue. Once purchased, it cannot be given away or taken witout being put to death. If it hasn't been sold, and you take it, if you are caught, you have to pay a normal fee plus a penalty. And if not, you are scot free since the testimony of the girl is irrelevant (females are not valid witnesses).
And this is not about "arranged marriage", this is about a non-arranged marriage and some guy taking what he wanted and getting caught.
So if the father gives up the girl, she is condemnt to being owned by the bastard for the rest of his life (if I were her, he would not have a long one). And if the father does not, her value is diminished, and he can sell her as a slave if he cannot sell her as a wife, or he can keep her. You are coming from a 21th century sense of evolved morality that surpasses the morality of this ancient text. In our days, slavery, enslaving women, and paying your way out of a rape charge seems nuts. But during those days, there was a different type of morality, where people had a financial value, and women were breeders to be sold like mares, and owned by their ba'al (master/husband), and their price was based on the status of their hymen, the amount of previous use, and their pedigree.
I consider this as evidence that morality does NOT come from those who accept these holy books, but from the evolution of society who rejects this morality.
I consider it outrageous that rape is of no issue, but the status of the ownership of her vagina is really the issue. Once purchased, it cannot be given away or taken witout being put to death. If it hasn't been sold, and you take it, if you are caught, you have to pay a normal fee plus a penalty. And if not, you are scot free since the testimony of the girl is irrelevant (females are not valid witnesses).
And this is not about "arranged marriage", this is about a non-arranged marriage and some guy taking what he wanted and getting caught.
So if the father gives up the girl, she is condemnt to being owned by the bastard for the rest of his life (if I were her, he would not have a long one). And if the father does not, her value is diminished, and he can sell her as a slave if he cannot sell her as a wife, or he can keep her. You are coming from a 21th century sense of evolved morality that surpasses the morality of this ancient text. In our days, slavery, enslaving women, and paying your way out of a rape charge seems nuts. But during those days, there was a different type of morality, where people had a financial value, and women were breeders to be sold like mares, and owned by their ba'al (master/husband), and their price was based on the status of their hymen, the amount of previous use, and their pedigree.
I consider this as evidence that morality does NOT come from those who accept these holy books, but from the evolution of society who rejects this morality.
“I've done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"— Ned Flanders
