so, the passage might even be interpreted as the condoning of sex outside of marriage, rather than killing them both, as was the custom then

THe BuyBull is full of this fucked up shit, how any woman or homosexual who has read the bible can or would ever want to be a Christian is beyond me

If you understand, that was the laws for the nation of Israel prior to 2000 years ago. The nation of Israel does not specifically follow those laws for government of the people now days.

i believe youre right about these ancient scriptures and the diminishing remnant of troglodytes who still base their lives on them, and the unknown percentage of rapists among them. but why focus on this relative mote (unless youve suffered rape, and then of course it is not a mote) when the much larger clear and present danger, the beam if you will, are the gross distortions of modern feminism which seem on the verge of perverting womens differently enabled minds to the point of poisoning love between the sexes, and thus subverting the very best aesthetic justification for our species? yes, koyaanisquatsi is the true base reality of these, the last, days. but as the ship goes down but we take our eye of the ball? must we jabber as we sink?

" And unto him and him alone shall she always belong as shall ALL his worldly goods, she shall be demure, silent unless permitted by him to speak, shall give herself and body unto at his will and desires, she SHALL be not permitted to be in his presence, nor sleep within his house during the times of her unclean bleedings..........." From the ORIGINAL version of Deuteronomy in the transcript of the Bible, circa 327 C.E.

Yes, but all of this is in the Old Pesterment.

Relying on the Bible for moral guidance is like relying on this book for scientific understanding ... both are inappropriate.

For a virgin? Why give all that up for an unknown rookie. Gimme a mature experienced woman any day....

There are cases recently where raped women have been treated as adulterous because their rapists were married. That is a massive cultural difference too.

This mish mash of comments on stoning is interesting:

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Exactly there is absolutely nothing moral about that book period or the god they claim to be true and shouldn’t our species have outgrown such barbaric practices?

Boy you're full of pleasant thoughts today, aren't you?

women still get the house in a divorce...etc

but really you can hopefully see how this was possibly meant to prevent the inevitable orgy of death that two sixteen year olds might unleash back then, simply by screwing out of wedlock

Ah, eternal wisdom for the ages from the omnipotent god of the universe. It fills one's heart with awe.

Women have always been property of men and still are in many countries and cultures. It's how men retain power... by controlling the breeding stock.

Printers really need to quit wasting trees to print that bullshit.

well, to be fair, we judge this passage by our cultural mores, and remain ignorant of the prevailing cultural mores of the time, when they were i guess killing girls who had gotten raped, so i think this will turn out like an eye for an eye, which was surely meant to limit retribution rather than condone it?

or it could be that you are reading "buying a virgin" or even "rape," when the text does not exactly say either one, eh? A possibly hard admission here is that many girls want a guy like that, even today, right?

but i suggest that "seizes her" is maybe being misinterpreted, as indicated by "and they are found," which suggests compliance on her part anyway (one standard is whether she "cries out" or not). And as to the "ownership" or chattel aspect of women then, in the ancient mideast, well, we still to this day incarcerate the husband for a crime and let the wife go, and etc, women look for men who can "support" them (until like, yesterday), several other examples like that, so it maybe becomes a matter of focus wadr

You don't. You look for something it the Bible which corresponds to your lack of morality or evil intentions, then you say, look I must be moral, it says so here.

Atrocious

Terrible.