Deuteronomy 21: 10 -14 tells us:
10 When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, 11 if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. 12 Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails 13 and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. 14 If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her. ---
Apparently cruelty, rape and humiliation is what god wants men to perpetrate on women. When we are told that the bible is the instruction manual for life and that it holds pearls of wisdom for us to treasure, I can't help but wonder WTF this kind of lesson is trying to teach us.
Where is the right of a woman to be treated with love and respect? I mean if you think some woman you captured is hot and want to marry her; you 1) Cut off her nails...No doubt so she doesn't scratch your face when you, 2) Shave her head, 3) Strip her naked, 4) Lock her away for a month to mourn the brutal death of her family.
After the month of being kind and considerate of her loss has expired, you can then go in and have sex with her. There is NO MENTION of this woman WANTING to have sex with you. Just that you can go in and make her your wife. BUT! And this is a BIG BUT! If YOU find no pleasure in her, you can CAST HER OFF! Simply discard her after having your way with her. Now, you can't sell her into slavery and profit from having humiliated and dishonored her. Just show her the door and foot her ass so she can go wherever the hell she wants to go.
God made us all in His image we are told. WHY would he allow this type of abuse to go on? And they wonder why I question everything in it.
Your thoughts please...