(July 5, 2015 at 11:52 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(July 5, 2015 at 11:42 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: God commanding people to stone women who do not show the signs of virginity when they are married is pretty brutal, particularly as the "signs of virginity" are not completely accurate. One would think that if an omniscient being made people, he would know that and not command that innocent women be stoned to death because they don't seem to be virgins when they are. (And if God were omnipotent, he could have made the "signs of virginity" accurate, but they are not.) But this is typical of the evil being called "god" in the Bible.
Just being an athletic young woman can break the hymen as early as eight. I did that. Blood in my panties scared my mother. The pediatrician was used to the question. It's common. Makes you wonder how many young women were stoned for it.
If your husband (if you have one) didn't like you after your wedding night and if we followed the rules of the Bible, you would have been stoned to death for that. Even if you were really a virgin when you married.
For those who need it, this is in Deuteronomy 22:13-21.
http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/22.htm
Yes, it certainly does make one wonder how many innocent women were murdered because of this law from "God."
A quick search online turned up the claim that the majority of women do not bleed the first time they have intercourse:
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2010/0...tercourse/
But regardless of that, it is an absolute fact that it is unreliable as a method of determining virginity, and consequently it is insane to use it as a life and death test. Which tells us something significant about the god of the Bible.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
