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To: Olog-hai
As for “rape not being morally wrong”, thanks for admitting you never read Deuteronomy 22:25.

Yes, I have, many times. It never says it's morally wrong to rape a woman, it says that if a betrothed woman and a man have sex, they are to be killed, but if it was rape, they spare her. There is no additional stigma mentioned against him for the rape, she is merely excused from having participated. Sex is the crime, not rape. And note, she has to be married or betrothed. Know why? Because the crime is not against her, it's against the man whose property she is. That's Middle Eastern mentality in big, bright lights.

This is proven by reading a little further to 22:29 wherein we find if she is not betrothed, she has to marry her rapist. Clearly rape is no problem to the God of the Middle East. Never has been. You can rape your wife, rape your slaves, rape a virgin and make her marry you. You just can't sully other men's property.

287 posted on 05/05/2014 5:57:15 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady

“It never says it’s morally wrong to rape a woman” yet it clearly proscribes the death penalty for rapists. Remarkable POV, never mind the conscious conflation of adulterers/fornicators and rapists.

No rape is indicated in Deuteronomy 22:28; the same word is not used as in verse 25 (”taphaz” in verse 28, meaning to manipulate and therefore seduce, versus “khazaq” in verse 25, meaning to seize by force). Being mendacious is very unhelpful.


290 posted on 05/05/2014 6:04:56 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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