They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings – Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba – died in the battle. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder. They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.I could ramble on all day about how horrible this is, but I feel quoting it is sufficient.
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle. "Why have you let all the women live?" he demanded. "These are the very ones who followed Balaam's advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves. -Numbers 31:7-18 NLT
So what do you think?
Is it morally justifiable to rape virgins?
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How does this imply rape in any way? Jumping to conclusions I suppose.
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ReplyDelete"Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves."
Back during biblical times it was common practice for an invading group to kill all the men of a town and rape the women. What I said was hardly jumping to conclusions.
What else does "Keep them for yourselves" mean? In it's most generous reading, it's saying "All these young girls (and note, it's not young women. It's young GIRLS) whose brothers and fathers and grandmothers and mothers who you have just slaughtered, you are allowed to bring them back to your city by force and try to strike up a romance." Is that more defensible somehow?
ReplyDeleteOr better yet, how about Exodus 32, Deuteronomy 28, Hosea 13, 1 Chronicles 21, and many of the numerous places the murderous lunatic YHWH Elhoim orders his people to kill not only other nations, but his own people. Sick shit, really. Quite sick. It should be outlawed as offensive, and anyone supporting it should be charged with a sex crime.
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