[ SECRET POST #2650 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2650 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Questions there's never a good time to ask.

[(Anonymous)]

I recall both instances mentioned having very bad ends for the people who committed rape....all the men of one city murdered for one rape, and another city sacked by an act of God for the second. If that's "promoting rape" you have a strange definition of "promoting."

Re: Questions there's never a good time to ask.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, not quite. There are passages in the OT that say that if a man rapes a woman, then he must marry her. I'm imagining that's the sort of thing that dreemy is referencing.

original anon

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, I get what you're saying, but it's important to pay attention to the historical context there. Back then, women were only seen as valuable/good potential for a wife if they were virgins. Whether you consented to losing your virginity or not didn't matter to the people. So, if a woman was no longer a virgin, she had little to no chance of a man wanting to marry her. (This applied to widows as well.) Because not a virgin = tainted in their eyes.

This was also a time when women could not work and take care of themselves or their families. But their husband would be able to provide for them and keep them safe. Things have changed since then, obviously, but at the time, all God was doing was ensuring that the woman would be taken care of. Marrying your rapist must not have been a very happy fate, but some of the women most likely preferred it to never being married, because of what that meant in their society.

God couldn't just say "Don't rape" and end it with that, because there are some people who know it's wrong and are just going to do it anyway. But he could give many men an incentive not to even consider it, and make sure that the women had someone to take care of them in case it happened.