(July 18, 2017 at 3:58 pm)alpha male Wrote:(July 17, 2017 at 3:38 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: So a bunch of murdering thugs sweep into town, kill all of the males and old women, and take the virgins out for a country bar-b-que and square dance and then sweetly ask them to become their wives. It might happen that way on one planet in the universe.
No, actually such captives were given 30 days to mourn, then could be taken as a wife. If it didn't work out, the woman had to be freed.
Deut 21
10 “When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God delivers them into your hand, and you take them captive, 11 and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and desire her and would take her for your wife, 12 then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails. 13 She shall put off the clothes of her captivity, remain in your house, and mourn her father and her mother a full month; after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. 14 And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall set her free, but you certainly shall not sell her for money; you shall not treat her brutally, because you have humbled her.
And nothing in that passage says "if she agrees to become your wife". The woman has no say and no choice. It only says to not treat her brutally and to not sell her as a slave. This is because she is no longer a virgin, and therefore damaged goods, and it's because her kidnapper raped her.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein