Why Secular Morality is Superior

[DeistPaladin]

So prove to us how you make this leap please DP. Surely you can show your exegesis of the text, and you're not just pulling all of this from your rectum?

I read what's there and put it in context with how virgin women are war booty throughout the OT.

First, the passage itself:
Nowhere in the entire passage is her consent either asked for or required. Neither is wooing ever part of the admonishment. It just says if you want her, take her, give her a month to mourn her family that you killed, and let her go if "she does not please you".

No consent = rape

You can slap the label "marriage" on it if you like but that does not sanitize rape.

As for context, I won't quote you every single passage where virgin women were taken as booty (you can use my handy list I provided earlier as a place to start) but here's a good example:

Deut 20:13-14 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

I'll resume the list I started earlier when I get home...