"If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife." Deuteronomy 22:23-24
How can you reconcile stoning a women because she was raped with a just and loving god?
1) For anyone who says "the old testament doesn't apply any more", I am aware christians believe that. However, if you believe that the god of the old testament is the same god as the god of the new testament, then you worship the god that, for thousands of years, commanded the death of raped women. That argument doesn't work.
2) For anyone who says I have taken the verse out of context, please explain the context in which stoning a woman because she was raped is the morally correct thing to do.
2007-02-28
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