RE: Rape in the Bible
December 2, 2014 at 1:05 pm
(This post was last modified: December 2, 2014 at 1:07 pm by Nope.)
I think that it would be easier to give bible god a pass if his followers hadn't given him so many omnis. If someone worshipped Zeus, that person could reasonably say that the ancient times had different rules and so their god shouldn't be judged for being a product of his time. Zeus could experience some kind of personal revelation and realize that raping virgins while in the guise of a swan is wrong. Although I suppose he can keep giving women golden showers if they agree to it.
The bible god is all powerful, all knowing and everywhere. He knows past and future and can not change or grow. The same god that said that rape is an acceptable by product of war is the same today, at least according to the bible.
Or one very sick rational that I heard is...it would be punishment for the poor man to be married to his rape victim because she would hate him and make his life miserable.
That doesn't take into account that if the victim had as much power as her attacker, she wouldn't have been raped in the first place. A man that will rape a woman to get a wife, will also beat her if she speaks out of turn and probably continue to rape her during the marriage.
The bible god is all powerful, all knowing and everywhere. He knows past and future and can not change or grow. The same god that said that rape is an acceptable by product of war is the same today, at least according to the bible.
(December 2, 2014 at 12:59 pm)robvalue Wrote: If they got raped, they must have deserved it. God only orders the rape and enslavement of evil people. Satan made evil people. God doesn't kill satan because of free will. Man makes himself evil. God had to treat people in their cultural context.
And the Big Bang can't have given us any morals, because monkeys would never have invented DNA.
That'll be £2000 please. What? Even God has to pay the bills.
Or one very sick rational that I heard is...it would be punishment for the poor man to be married to his rape victim because she would hate him and make his life miserable.
That doesn't take into account that if the victim had as much power as her attacker, she wouldn't have been raped in the first place. A man that will rape a woman to get a wife, will also beat her if she speaks out of turn and probably continue to rape her during the marriage.
