(June 23, 2015 at 6:46 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(June 23, 2015 at 5:41 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote: Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT "If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her."
Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB "When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion."
There are so many more examples of how sick and twisted god's stance is on rape.
As I have already pointed out, God took the men where they were at and imposed on them a higher standard of behavior.
Is this really so difficult to understand?
God raised the bar; instead of merely raping and moving on, the men were required to marry the girls and care for them. I suspect that in more than a few instances, rapes did NOT occur because the men did not want to marry as the law required. Thus, God's law probably saved quite a few women from being raped.
However, the passage in Dt. 21 does not speak of rape as it might occur in a random act; instead, it reveals that some thought and consideration was required. Rather than raping the woman in the heat of the moment, the Hebrews were required to wait a month before MARRYING the women.
That's not exactly the kind of story we hear about on the nightly news, is it? No, most rape stories don't suggest that the woman was taken into the home of the man, cleaned up (yeah, head shaved to eliminate lice, etc), dressed in new clothes, given an opportunity to mourn loved ones lost in the battle, MARRIED, and then...what? Raped? Against their wills?s
Maybe. Or maybe the women appreciated how well they had been treated by their captor. It was a different age, life was brutish, and war was not pretty.
But have any of you bleeding hearts stopped to consider what would have happened to these girls if the men had NOT been required to marry them?
Your a disgusting pig!!!!! Forcing a woman to marry a man and have sex with him is rape. Your acting like the men are doing a favor for the women, you really think these women want to marry these men? Its bad enough having to go through a rape experience once let alone having to be a live in rape victim. If you really think slaughtering a womans family, kidnapping her, forcing her to be your wife and raping her is civilized then your a sick person.
