(From this thread.)
…I learned many things about the Bible to fuel my hatred of it…
You actively hate the Bible?
Yes, when it has things passages saying to kill homosexuals (and pretty much everyone else who isn’t a straight worshiper of Yahweh),
I’m not sure what passages you’re speaking of, so I don’t know how many ways the text can be interpreted. (Also, about your parentheses, I don’t think a homosexual can effectively worship God.)
This is not true, it simply says that it’s a sin to marry the same sex. Just as it is a sin to have pre-marital sex.
I know this, but I wasn’t sure if he was speaking of a specific passage that I wasn’t remembering.
a raped virgin must marry her rapist
Well, I don’t recall it saying that in those terms, but people aren’t supposed to have sexual relation before marriage, and if that is committed, the parties are supposed to get married.
No, the context of this was that when a woman is raped she becomes an outcast. The rapist was told to marry her and care for her because he made her undesirable. Marrying her was pretty much what he had to pay for raping her.
Ah, thanks for clarification. I didn’t remember that right away, so I thought he was referencing something else.
and a woman should not have authority over a man
“I’m not sure what passages you’re speaking of…”
I know what he’s talking about but it gets pretty complicated, I recommend actually doing some research.
Do you remember what book/chapter he’s referencing? Or will I need to do some more looking up (hence “doing some research”)?
Thanks for replying, Smithers, since you seem to have a better memory of what he’s talking about (and I’m sure more knowledge about the suject in general) than I do. 😄