So this is supposed to be justice from god?

Men wrote the Bible. If women had, they'd have fed his nuts to the family dog.

a good deal of what is written in the bible is for a time period entirely different from what we live in now....if a girl lost her virginity prior to marriage..she was virtually without value at all...and nowadays good luck finding a virgin old enough to get married...

Check Deuteronomy 22: 25: But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:
26: But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:

Acording to the bible women are nothing but property.
So if you beat them or rape them there is very little consequence.
You can also beat your slave if he can get up with 3 days of the beating.
The god of the bible is just a racist woman beating hillbilly.


And people worship this guy.

City Rape (urban rape victims who fail to scream loud enough )

If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city. -- Deuteronomy 22:23-24

Country Rape

But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die. ... For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her. -- Deuteronomy 22:25-27

Of an unbetrothed virgin

If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. -- Deuteronomy 22:28-29

Of prisoners of war

And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? ... Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. -- Numbers 31:15-18

Christians have come with excuses for those.
Realy realy lame excuses but they always need to make stuff up to explain things why god pramotes rape and slavery and why he has never heald an amputee.
It's actually a bit pathetic.

Ive never heard any excuse for those. Im sorry but "its the word of god, go along with it." does not qualify as an excuse.

sure, that was the time.
or those were mans laws and they are just mentioned in the bible for some reason.

and the amputee thing well god just hates them.

Christians are always making excuses for God. They have no other choice. The behavior of the biblical God is inexcusable.

This is why I left Christianity. It's truly is inexcusable.

How many excuses does a person need to come up with before they finally realize that all they are doing is making excuses for the God they worship?

Why can't people look at the Bible and seriously ask, "Who really wrote this stupid frigging book?"

That's what I did.

All a person needs to do is stop of one second and take a serious look at that question.

What Christians do is just assume that the book is the word of God and then they feel like it must be defended no matter what.

But that's backward thinking.

What they should really be doing is asking themselves why they would believe that God would be that lame in the FIRST PLACE!

It never ceases to amaze me how many Christians suggest that I think I'm smarter than God.

Excuse me?

God didn't write the Bible!

If he did then EVERYONE would be smarter than God.

Well maybe not everyone, there are some pretty stupid people out there even today.

"It was the time" does not cut it because why in the hell would that be portrayed as the "word of god"?

if god wrote the bible in the 60s we would all be droppin acid in church and hyms would be Zepplin and Beatle songs.

hmmmm now thats a god i could get behind.

So the implication there is that "god", this timeless, omniscient being is totally dependant upon the customs, laws and social norms of the day? Umm, okay.

That’s not an excuse and makes it even more obvious that none of this could have been written by a divine creator.

exactly but most christians don't think that far ahead.
Plus you would be suprized how many people just swallow that without question.

I know what you saying. Bottom line there is no justifiable reason for these kinds of passages to exist in the bible. Women were to be considered property. A mule or cow essentially had more value. It’s disgraceful.

its sad but its not the word of god, and no justifiable reason exists..it was a way for MEN to justify the unreasonable that they promoted

I concur. I would imagine that if god made woman that would be part of his creation. 50% of his creation in fact. There would not be this distinction made. That is the doing of human men.

The truth of the matter is, female oriented spirituality existed long before any of this god stuff and this new religion was in direct conflict with these older beliefs and practices. Women create life, men don’t.

Oh man I was not expecting that one. Good thing I was turned sideways in my seat of I would have spit coffee into my keyboard.

Thanks for the belly laugh I needed that this morning.. LMAO

Hmmm, think about it. Dinosaurs, Adam and Eve, talking snakes, murder and ..........
Hey wait, God already had access to that acid...

Good point