Showing posts with label torah. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Think of the Children!

Ever since I really started reading the Bible, actually paying attention to what it says instead of simply believing in it, I have been fairly disturbed by the fact that people read this to their children. Can you imagine any other story featuring rape, genocide, infanticide, murder and incest that anyone would find acceptable for children? Yeah, me neither.

This person has her children copying the Torah (Old Testament, if you were raised Christian) as part of their homeschooling. And this is the portion her daughter copied.


10When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, 11if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. 12Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails 13and 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. 14If 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.

Allow me to translate that for you: If you, a soldier, see a pretty woman while slaughtering your enemies, you may kidnap and rape her, after shaving off her hair and cutting her nails. She is now your wife. If you grow bored of raping her, you can kick her out and leave her with nothing. But don't sell her into slavery, because that's just wrong.

Yes, that's totally appropriate reading material for a small girl.
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