Shocking WT Statement on RAPE! Disgusting! (page 3)

HintOfLime

Rapists:

"treat him understandingly", "he's only human" - Awake: February 22, 1984 p. 24

Non-believers ("apostates"):

"True Christians ... "feel a loathing" toward those who have made themselves God's enemies"- Watchtower 1993 November 1 p.19

"The obligation to hate lawlessness also applies to all activity by apostates. Our attitude toward apostates should be that of David, who declared: "Do I not hate those who are intensely hating you…" - Watchtower 1992 July 15 pp.12-13

Evidently, it is preferable in the eyes of the Watchtower's god for someone to rape an innocent woman or child than to point out hypocrisy, failures, and/or inconsistencies of the Watchtower's leaders (men) or doctrines (men's ideas). (You certainly won't see the WT suggesting that people who leave the org are 'only human' and 'no doubt there were circumstances that led them away', etc.)

I'm not even twisting things - that really is how they think. Ruined lives are less important to the GB than their failed attempt at interpreting the bible - and they make it even more clear by how they handle abuse.

It is disgusting.

- Lime

alice.in.wonderland

Is it the WT statement on rape that is disgusting or the Bibles? Keep in mind, this is the Mosaic law, not the new covenant:

If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives. Deuteronomy 22:28

HintOfLime

Is it the WT statement on rape that is disgusting or the Bibles? Keep in mind, this is the Mosaic law, not the new covenant:

Both.

- Lime

blondie

That's great, what every woman wants is to be forced to marry her rapist and not be able to ever be divorced from him. And why does the father get the money, he wasn't raped? Because it is a property issue. Also even if the man were married, he would not be considered as committing adultery because in Israel men were allowed to have more than one wife.

If a man raped a married woman, he was put to death.

If a man raped an engaged woman, he was put to death.

But if a man raped an unmarried woman, he was allowed to live, marry his victim, forced to never be separated from her. I can see how loving a marriage that was! Why the difference, because it was a property issue not a moral issue.

notverylikely

Is it the WT statement on rape that is disgusting or the Bibles? Keep in mind, this is the Mosaic law, not the new covenant:

Yes.

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notverylikely

Blondie, it was a line from Blazing Saddles.

alice.in.wonderland

"Both.

You need look no further than the Old Testament to determine the bible was written by man.

- Lime"

If the rapist was unrepentant, he was to be put to death as were all evildoers in ancient Israel. You can look up repentance in the Insight on the Scriptures publication. Repentance paved the way for civilized order in ancient Israel. This is difficult to fathom if you're an atheist, but ancient Israel was a completely different world than contemporary society or modern day Christianity. If there is a repentant rapist in the congregation, this article you quoted from outlines some viewpoints so he can function in the congregation without being ostracized. It's likely that a rape victim, regardless of what's published in this Awake! article could not attend the same congregation as a rapist. A rapist released from prison may participate in different aspects of society, but it's up to any given person to decide how they should relate to them.

Shocking WT Statement on RAPE! Disgusting!

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