Second, you are assuming a viewpoint that Christianity taught! This is earlier in the slow, painful spiritual climb out of the fall of man at Eden.
A "show" produced by the same director. "Slow climb"? LOL
Whole tribes are 'civilised' overnight and these specimen needed a " slow climb"?
"You may capture and rape"
1000 years later...
"You may capture, 'marry' then screw."
1000 years later...
"Don't rape."
Yeah. So much for a "universal", "absolute" morality, so into keeping up with the times.
I love such moments of truth when they get openly, willfully revealed in public.
You want an antiseptic heaven? With the cross sitting right outside Eden or sumfin? Go look in some other book or maybe smoke something. Rotsa ruck. Same author, but man’s spiritual state changed over physical time and this was per plan for God’s own glory. No problem here with some things being considered big deals today that were not considered big deals in the past.
Oh, and your objection is also based in the fallacy that salvation comes through “keep a bunch of rules.” No, salvation comes through acceptance of the Spirit’s power to reconcile one back to God. How such Spirit work is displayed is an implementation question — but all you have to offer are begged questions then a totally empty gloating that you “proved” what you never did prove.
Rape within marriage is not addressed, and never will be, because the Bible is a relic from another time and place. People trying to reinterpret it now remind me of grad students writing up “Jane Austen’s feminist dialectic on colonialism.” And of course, people have long since pointed out that many of the rules of the OT have been relaxed as the all-knowing, unchanging entity changes his mind about polyester blends, and reasons for smiting your neighbor.
You are quite wrong that the Bible condones rape in any situation.
What does the Bible say about rape?
http://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-rape.html
But one thing I have learned about atheists, is that they will not believe it even when the errors they promulgate about the Bible are shown to be false. They will continue to persist in believing and spreading the errors they hold to.