Again this shows how the lack of knowledge about basic biology influenced how men decided to control women. Since men (at the time of writing the fairy tale) had no real idea of how women conceived it was felt that if a woman had slept with a man there was no way of knowing if the child she had was yours or her previous husband. So off with her head and make sure you marry a virgin so you know the children are yours.
Ignore my scoffing and laughing at that idea of knowing. I am sure that some of the mythos around pregnancy was due to a woman not showing signs of being pregnant in the early stages and being able to palm off a pregnancy due to infidelity by saying it was his and must have been from back in December as opposed to January etc. (good on her)
I think it was a Dave Allen skit about belief and knowledge as with all his skits set in a catholic church with the priest talking about the difference and pointing to a family in the front row mum dad 1001 offspring and saying Dad you believe all of those children are yours but Mum knows they are hers.
Only a female knows 100% (prior to DNA testing) that the offspring is hers the male just has faith or believes it is his. (yes I know he has your nose but then it could be the nose of your great grandfather that your brother also has the genes for etc)
That is true. Although fear of sexually transmitted disease may also have been a factor according to some people. But it may be that the biggest single factor, was simply the fear that mature and experienced women, presented a greater threat to the culture and the authority of its leaders, especially religious leaders, in a way that young girls, who would be easier to dominate and re-indoctrinate, would not. Certainly that reason is the one given in another passage by the Bible itself, where it says that foreign women should be killed, because they will teach the young men about foreign gods and foreign customs. You have to remember also that in those cultures, girls would often marry at twelve, fourteen or younger, and therefore those younger still, would still be quite small and weak, and easy therefore, to quite crudely just physically beat and abuse if they did not comply with their new culture.
Also the immediate verses before. "Have ye saved all the women alive ? Behold these cause the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam to commit trespass against the Lord."
This mythical God is a bloodthirsty, murderous, sexually depraved...POS. If it took place today he would be arrested, put on trial, and sentenced either to Life in Prison with no chance of Parole, or Executed. But seeing as how the stories are told by "His Disciples", it exonerates the FUCKER. And what is REALLY puzzling is WOMEN BUY INTO THIS SHIT??? Unfuckingbelievable.
The Bible is full of stuff like that. Not exactly a shining example of moral virtue.
In biblical times ,If a woman cheated on her husband, the towns people would stone her to death.
Today a woman goes to a bar and gets stone and cheats on her husband. And collects the kids and house in a divorce.
You got to love this one too. If you have an unruly son take him to edge of town and kill him
Deuteronomy 21:18-22:30
New King James Version
The Rebellious Son
18 “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them, 19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city. 20 And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21 Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; (A)so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.