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.
Is this an atheist meme or an antitheist one? (The point is still valid)
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.
50 shekels is about $300 USD btw.
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.
