Pedophilia in the Bible: this is a porn book

[vulcanlogician]

What about their young male children? Are they to be penalized for something their parents did? Something over which they had no control?

They were indentured servants. They got room and board for six years, then were freed and given goods to start out on their own.

From the OP (with my emphasis)

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites ... And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males ... And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones ... And Moses was wroth with the officers ... And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? ... Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. Numbers 31:1-18

[John V]

Thought we were still on the other issue.

The male children were killed to completely wipe out the practices being judged. I subscribe to an age of accountability doctrine, so I'd say they're in heaven now.

[Brian37]

(my emphasis)


What about these verses?

The passage shows that they weren't into sex with children. The scenario is of a poor family which needs money. If the daughter were of marriageable age (puberty), they would give her to a husband for the bride price. That they don't do such indicates that the girl was not yet old enough for marriage, and that the law drew this distinction. As your commentary says, An Israelite father could sell his unmarried daughters into servitude, with the expectation or understanding that the master or his son could eventually marry her (as in Exodus 21:7-11.) It is understood by Jewish and Christian commentators that this referred to the sale of a daughter, who "is not arrived to the age of twelve years and a day, and this through poverty."

Until of age, the girl was a slave, but not a sex slave as just explained. 

Once of age, either the man or one of his sons could marry her. At such time she became a wife with full rights, and was no longer a slave. Note that her rights were protected: "If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marriage rights." Interestingly, her marriage rights - i.e. her rights to sex from the husband - were protected. That's not a provision you would expect for a sex slave. "And if he does not do these three for her, then she shall go out free." Again, that's not the right of a slave, this was the normal right of a wife.

The only way you can call this sex slavery is if you think of arranged marriages as sex slavery. Over 50% of marriages worldwide today are arranged.

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They engaged in genocide on pretext.  

What's your evidence of that?

DUDE you are making a fool out of yourself.

SLAVERY was common in antiquity. FORCED MARRIAGE was common in antiquity. PERIOD!

That old book of mythology reflects the beliefs of the people that lived BACK THEN. It has no value in today's world in the context of our modern society. 

Nobody is singling you out or your religion out. 

THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW.

[The Grand Nudger]

So, you don't have any evidence, yet you refer to people who burned their own babies alive as good old wholesome mommies and daddies.

They could be evil shits and it still wouldn't matter.  When a person attempts to justify their own inequity by reference to the inequity of others, they have failed from the outset. My Lai was full of vc and vc sympathizers..after all.

There is -nothing- you can convince me of..beyond your complete lack of a moral compass...in this way. The narrative is irredeemable, as is anyone who finds goodness or righteousness in it.

-and you still don't need it, it doesn't have to be true, it doesn't have to be the good judgement of god. It can just be the common justification of a common raiding party with a common tribal grievance. Your continued insistence is the only reason that your god or your religion, or you..yourself.... can be taken to task for it. Is there some requirement in christianity that I'm unaware of...that a believer be a war criminal for christ just because the heebs said or did something?

You know those guys killed jesus, right? They're not exactly paragons of godly virtue doing what daddy in the clouds tells them........to hear magic book tell the tale.

[John V]

They could be evil shits and it still wouldn't matter. 

I disagree. I think the liberation of the Nazi death camps was right, despite the hundreds of thousands of German civilians killed in the war.

[The Grand Nudger]

Yeah, we totally owned those nazis by taking their country and killing all the mommies and daddys and big brothers and any girl or captive we didn't want.... and ran off with the daughters we did for indentured servants*.  

*sex slaves

[Brian37]

They could be evil shits and it still wouldn't matter. 

I disagree. I think the liberation of the Nazi death camps was right, despite the hundreds of thousands of German civilians killed in the war.

Hitler was not an atheist, he was his own brand of deist/Catholic/Occult. He had a belief in a higher power and he never lost that. 

And regardless of his personal beliefs, the population he convinced to support him WERE CHRISTIANS.

"Got Mit Uns" <-------- God is with us".

Please bring up Stalin and Mao and Castro too, we'd love to embarrass you on those histories too.

[John V]

And again, they weren't sex slaves. They were wives. Their lovely mommies and daddies, when not busy burning babies, would have put them into arranged marriages - i.e., making them sex slaves to you.

In fact, their mommies were sex slaves, and their daddies were slavers.

[The Grand Nudger]

They were Bad People™ is an ironic justification for abject immorality.

Now, you're just telling me that the heebs went in and slaughtered sex slaves. Captain save a ho to the rescue! Except, well...not.

I'll ask again, if you're okay with this in every particular, why do you have any need of justifying it whatsoever?

[LadyForCamus]

Ahhh...slavery, rape, and infanticide apologetics. Three cornerstones of Christianity!