(September 10, 2013 at 2:27 pm)Drich Wrote: WHEN a man raped a woman, how do you suggest that soceity should have handeled it 4000 years ago?
Remember no jail, no lawyers, no social infrastructure at all. And please it must be something viable or i will call you out as a dumbass. Show me something that would have work in the existing laws place.
How about a being of unparalleled power, who could have used that power to punish (or even prevent) such behavior directly, as he did in many other circumstances as described in the Bible? Why would he care about the societal norms of ancient cultures? What stopped him from saying something like "if a man approaches a woman with the intent of raping her, I will cause him to die instantly"? Why would he instead create a rule that respects such a backwards culture? He demanded that they put to death a man who worked on the Sabbath, but nooo... we wouldn't want to offend anyone by outlawing slavery!
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