2007-12-27 14:10:07 · 11 answers · asked by Laptop Jesus 3.9 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The one where if a husband suspects his wife has been seeing someone else, he can take her to the priest who will force her to swallow an abortifacient.
Of course, the husband doesn't have to have actual proof of her infidelity, he only needs to be under "a spirit of jealousy".
Abortifacients weren't all that reliable in those days, of course. However, if she was really guilty the "bitter water" the priest makes her swallow and that "brings the curse" would cause "her abdomen to swell and her thigh to rot".
It's actually not that amazing that an ancient tribal patriarchal society might have such a law, more that the Biblical literalist anti-abortion mob haven't noticed it.
It's Numbers chapter 5: 11 to 31.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/index.php?search=Numbers%205:11-31&version=49;&interface=print
Note the final verse. Whatever the outcome, and no matter whether the husband's jealous feelings are justified or not, "moreover, the man will be free from guilt, but that woman shall bear her guilt."
2007-12-27 21:26:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
"If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her." (Deuteronomy 22:28-29)
What kind of lunatic would make a rape victim marry her attacker? Answer: God.
And let's not forget Deuteronomy 22:23-24, "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."
It is clear that God doesn't give a damn about the rape victim. He is only concerned about the violation of another mans "property".
2007-12-27 14:49:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
A lot of the laws, especially the preposterously technical in Leviticus and Deuteronomy were probably not part of the original covenant, the statement, "The Lord said to Moses" can also mean "A law we think comes from God."
2016-04-11 04:25:54 · answer #3 · answered by Donna 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The one that forbids the making of any image (not to mention worshiping it), because not only it's not followed by catholics. It was also actually banned from the ten commandments by them.
Just for the record, since there HAD to be 10 commandments, they split the last one in two, forbidding the 9th to covet things, and the 10th to cover your neighbor's wife.
Not that it's a sexist religion, huh?
2007-12-28 17:01:07 · answer #4 · answered by Aritmentor 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stoning disobedient children to death. That would wipe out the population of a nation in a single generation.
2007-12-27 18:22:30 · answer #5 · answered by Gawdless Heathen 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Honour thy father and mother
That one changes for me all the time, it's like looking at a prism of light.
2007-12-27 14:13:57 · answer #6 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The one that states that fabric blends are an abomination. Don't go mixing cotton and flax! I just wish it forbid cheap polyester!
2007-12-27 14:20:44 · answer #7 · answered by in a handbasket 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
that if a woman has a male child she is considered unclean for seven days but if she has a female child she is unclean for 14 days.
2007-12-27 14:24:41 · answer #8 · answered by Heather M 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Gathering firewood for your family on the Sabbath is punishable by death and is a hell worthy trespass.
2007-12-27 14:15:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
Not coveting your neighbor's as.s is pretty amazing if you ask me, and you did ask me.
Oh, and having to stay away from a woman on her period, that's pretty amazing, how can we tell? should we ask?
2007-12-27 14:30:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋