Hmmm. Reading the scripture it seems to me to not even be about rape. But more like sex out of wedlock.
28 g“If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, 29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days. >
Well that’s worse. Imagine being raped and bought like cattle from your parents.
My point was that without more context it doesn’t seem to be speaking about rape. Just premarital sex. Not cool but still
I think the connection is coming from the word “seizes”, which sounds non-consensual.
I could see that as an interpretation for sure. I’m not well versed enough in Hebrew to understand the original text and it’s context. But I think one could argue that “seize” here could be seen as persuing her romantically.
Now please don’t take this as me defending any of this. I’m just trying to show how many different ways this may be interpreted which leads to how people take the Bible out of context or to extremes.
And that he violated her. Also doesn’t sound good.
You’re correct. But in Christianity premarital sex is seen as a sin and whether or not its consensual they would most likely still see it as a act of violating a woman.
Is this an atheist meme or an antitheist one? (The point is still valid)
Oooh, that’s a really good point. Yeah, this shouldnt be in atheistmemes.
There is a Portuguese writer that is very critical of the bible, I think you would like to read him, he’s a noble prize winner, Jose Saramago. He really exposes the hipocrisy of the church.
You don’t need to be a noble winner to sus out the bullshit in the Bible. Just be mildly sceptical and less credulous than a 4 year old.
He really manages to portrait it really well though.
50 shekels is about $300 USD btw.
Why, for that price, I could hire a prostitute. Or, if I wanna visit a seedier part of town, I imagine I could really make that money stretch and hire many.
I question that. According to Wikipedia, 50 shekels in ancient times would have been worth anywhere from five months to five years of unskilled labor. In parts of the USA that still use the federal minimum wage, that works out to between $6,000 and $73,000. In most of the country it’d be higher yet.
Women are being regarded as a man‘s property in many old-school religions. Just look at the Mullahs or the Taliban, they are not better than this.
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Where is the meme?
Is there still people who takes the Bible literally? If yea then this is not an atheism thing, is mostly a mental health issue.
Only the people who cherry pick whatever suits them, which is pretty much every religious person.
