does sex really contaminate a person?
how is something natural "a sin"?
how can rapists do this and still claim Christianity and be defended by Christians while the victims thrown out of the churches if they finger the abuser?
2007-09-30 12:31:38 · 11 answers · asked by voice_of_reason 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nobody is responsible for being raped.
To suggest that a rape victim is culpable for the crime is a medieval idea and should not continue in the modern world. The Catholic church, for example, imprisoned and tortured Artemesia Gentileschi, a gifted female artist, because she brought charges against her rapist in the 17th century, and would have been forced to marry him under biblical rules. I see similar type of thinking in all sorts of situations today, usually in parts of the Middle East where a woman can be killed by her family over "honor," if she has been raped.
It's disgusting that this tradition continues today. I'm also bothered by some religious conservatives in the U.S. that refuse to administer emergency contraception to a woman who has been the victim of rape, placing their own theology over the health of the female. Apparently, a rapist's sperm is more sacred than the notion that a woman should not have to become pregnant as a result of an attack. My own friend was raped by an instructor at our Catholic school when she was 12, and I remember a few instructors after that who ignored me after she transferred, as I had been her friend. This was in 1997. Even my own father said, "Why would she do that?" as if she were somehow culpable for the molestation by a 30-year old man. It's barbaric.
2007-09-30 12:42:25 · answer #1 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Rape is by nature an act of forcing a person to endure a degrading violation against their body and spirit. The only sin here is upon the soul of the rapist and not the victim. There is no way that God will punish the victim of such an act. But the rapist has sinned gravely and will be held accountable for it big time before God. I am a Catholic Christian and I have not heard of anyone in the position you described of being thrown out of a church because they were a victim of a rape and had tried to finger the perpetrator. But I believe you if you say you have experienced that because unfortunately there are many pharisees and hypocrites in this world even in churches, putting on the face of religious righteousness and harboring evil and corruption in their hearts. That was a problem at the time of Jesus and it will always be a problem because of man's sinful nature. Please don't blame all Christians for the actions of a few. Most true Christians are lovers and followers of Christ's teachings which advocates love, respect, mercy, compassion. honesty and love of justice. The people you speak of have a big problem and hopefully will change before it is too late or they will lose their souls. As for the victim of rape, my heart and my prayers go out to her, and I pray that justice prevail. And above all do NOT believe that the one who is the victim of rape has been contaminated by the sin of the rapist. That is just not true. God bless you.
2007-09-30 13:13:38 · answer #2 · answered by mammabecki 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree. Did you see on 'God's Warriors' when a muslim woman said some females are stoned to death when they are raped?! Absurd! Sex as a union between loved ones is surely different than being raped, and would be something 'natural' in the scheme of things. Definitely it should be the rapist punished, not the victim! And if man punishes the person raped, even by murder, then God is there to wipe away their tears, and you can count on justice being served for the rapists-if not on earth, then when judgment day comes.
2007-09-30 12:40:44 · answer #3 · answered by dawnUSA 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A person can be hurt and devastated by a sexual assault; however to claim a person is contaminated is like raping them all over again. How the hell can this be deemed as natural?????
It sounds like you are alluding to the people who were victimized by priests, pastors, etc. I am a Christian and I believe these perverts should be buried UNDER the jail.
One of the reasons I quit going to mass regularly was because I was enraged that collections were being taken up for the legal defense of these bastards; but not for the victims.
Do not assume that all Christians condone or even tolerate this. Many of us do not.
2007-09-30 12:41:19 · answer #4 · answered by ValleyViolet 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I never defend any rapist. Neither does ANY Christian that I know of. NO rape victim is thrown out of church because she was raped.
Where do you get this stuff?
I would advocate putting the rapist in prison for life with no hope of parole.
2007-09-30 12:47:16 · answer #5 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When someone is forced to do something that doesn't cause them to sin at all. But the abuser is the one who is sinning by forceing his will on others.
Sex is a natural way to reproduce and make copies of ourselves. Just like one apple is good for you and a bussel basket of apples will make you sick.
There is a right way and a wrong way to have sex. Since it is for the sole purpouse of reproducing. Couples should be married and committed to at least 20 years together to bring up the child. However, sex has become the new indoor sport.
Where they see very little love or committment of caring between indivuals. children are raped as well as adults.
So it has become the most misused organ in the body.
God made it pleasurable so we wouldn't die out as a people.
But it was never his intentions for people to worship their sex organ.
2007-09-30 12:41:44 · answer #6 · answered by Steven 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The rapist sinned, not the victim. Rape is not sex, it is a violent intimate assault which happens to involve genitalia.
Sex is not evil; some religions consider sex or lust outside of some boundaries (marriage etc.) to be a sin. However I do not agree, because a 17 boy (for example) cannot be free of lust for... more than a few seconds? Hormones make it inevitable, and I don't think God is mean.
Christianity and the other Abrahamic religions condone rape historically, failing to see it for what it is: murder of innocence and trust, as bad or worse than murder killing.
2007-09-30 12:39:39 · answer #7 · answered by SC 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
you are really mixed up. The person who was raped was not contaminated with sin. Duh. Sin is a choice and if the person who was raped is not a Christian, then she must pay for her sins when she dies like everyone else who does not believe. If a rapist, after the rape, is saved, then of course he is a Christian.
We all sin and if we choose to repent and be saved by Jesus, then we go to heaven.
By the way, we do not throw victims out of our churches if they "finger the abuser". Church is welcoming to sinners. If we were perfect and without sin, we wouldn't need jesus and church would be obsolete.
2007-09-30 12:36:52 · answer #8 · answered by Suzi♥Squirrel 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Bible doesn't teach that. If Christians are blaming a victim, the victim needs to find a new church.
2007-09-30 12:36:08 · answer #9 · answered by nursesr4evr 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rape is against the regulation. God punishes crime. once you tension somebody to have intercourse with you against your will, how can or no longer that is organic? If a rapist even however, confesses his sins to God and begs for forgiveness, God will forgive him.
2016-10-20 10:03:27 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋