(November 10, 2014 at 6:32 pm)Lek Wrote: The bible never claims that they were morally justified and God didn't condone them. I keep saying this, but it seems to go over your heads.
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Sounds like you're saying your standards are correct just because....they are.
God sanctions a civil war against the Benjamites, which kills tens of thousands, in response to this rape, yet he is silent on the issue of the man forcing his concubine to be raped in his place. I think god says a lot in his silence. Furthermore, after said war, the other tribes slaughter all the men, children, and non-virgin women/girls of another city just so that they can take their women captive (Jewish women) and force them to marry the remaining Benjamites that escaped so that their tribe doesn't die out. God says nothing about this. There's a lot of things god says nothing about, yet as pointed out before, he calls for people to be killed if they work on his rest day. My goal is not to identify a "correct" standard of morality. It is to point out that the morality of the bible is inconsistent and useless to a more developed society, where we recognize that all individuals have rights and should be treated equally. I'm saying that comparatively, the general morality of the modern world results in fairer treatment of all people than the moral account we see in the bible.
