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The Bible Condones Rape
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<blockquote data-quote="aiki" data-source="post: 58741372" data-attributes="member: 178791"><p>This is a prophetic utterance by Isaiah, which, as ebia noted, is filled with the kind of hyperbole typical of war accounts of that time. I don't see anywhere in the passage, however, a specific command given by God. Instead, Isaiah is describing the misery that will befall Babylon under God's judgment. There is no <em>command</em> by God to rape women; there is only a hyperbolic <em>description</em> of what the end of Babylon will be like that includes rape. It is a fallacy to contend that because there is this description in the Bible that it follows that it <em>ought</em> to happen. By that I mean, the Bible records the awful practices of the Medes when they overtake Babylon, but this doesn't necessarily constitute divine <em>approval</em> of their actions. </p><p></p><p>Selah.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aiki, post: 58741372, member: 178791"] This is a prophetic utterance by Isaiah, which, as ebia noted, is filled with the kind of hyperbole typical of war accounts of that time. I don't see anywhere in the passage, however, a specific command given by God. Instead, Isaiah is describing the misery that will befall Babylon under God's judgment. There is no [I]command[/I] by God to rape women; there is only a hyperbolic [I]description[/I] of what the end of Babylon will be like that includes rape. It is a fallacy to contend that because there is this description in the Bible that it follows that it [I]ought[/I] to happen. By that I mean, the Bible records the awful practices of the Medes when they overtake Babylon, but this doesn't necessarily constitute divine [I]approval[/I] of their actions. Selah. [/QUOTE]
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