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Originally Posted by Azure
Like I said, God changed all those laws.
How do you know it wasn't a cultural tradition to do something that crazy? Or part of the Jewish culture at that time?
I might have missed something, but where does it talk about gang-rape?
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He may have changed 'em, but according to you he made them up in the first place. I find that kind of disturbing.
How do I know it wasn't a cultural tradition to do something that crazy? I
don't know And besides, so what if it was? It is an indefensibly bad cultural tradition if it was one, but here we have God condoning it by writing up the rulebook.
The story of Lot has him offering up his daughter to a sex-crazed mob at the door, in effort to protect some guys that popped in. He gets rewarded for it. That's where the gang-rape comes in. Oddly enough, this episode makes more sense and is possibly even less depraved than other events that take place in
Genesis 19.*
How anyone can possibly believe these things actually happened in reality or take some sort of spiritual feelgoodity in believing that they did is truly mind-buggering.
*I have shamelessly stolen this example from Richard Dawkins. I don't even have a copy of the Old Testament, but thankfully it is all on-line