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Is it Rape or Not

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10-31-2006 7:05 PM 		Reply to: Message 28 by Faith
10-31-2006 5:54 PM

Re: Deuteronomy 21 in context
If you want to judge an ancient culture by modern standards, that seems irrational to me, but there's no answering such a position if you want to insist on it.
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Maybe I missed something somewhere, but I thought this thread was about a passage from the bible, not simply a discussion of an "ancient culture."
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Those who would sacrifice an essential liberty for a temporary security will lose both, and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin
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10-31-2006 7:10 PM 		Reply to: Message 29 by Faith
10-31-2006 5:58 PM

Re: actually pretty practical
This is the problem with reading such a passage out of context. You have to know the whole historical setting in which God orders this punishment of the Midianites, or you end up trying to abstract out principles that are not really general but only apply in this particular case.
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I understand a similar point can be made about most of the passages that bigots like to use to show the bible condemns homosexuality.
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