‘If, while in a town, a man happens to meet a woman who is engaged to be married and he has sex with her, take them both to the gate of the town and stone them to death: the girl, for not having cried for help in the town; the man, for having violated another man’s wife. You must banish this evil from among you.’

‘But if, while out in the country, a man happens to meet a girl engaged to be married, and seizes her and rapes her, the rapist alone must die. You must do nothing to the girl. She has not committed a sin worthy of death, for she may have called out for help without anyone coming to her rescue.’

‘If a man happens to meet a virgin woman who is not engaged to be married, and he seizes her and rapes her, but is caught in the act, he rapist must pay the girl’s father fifty silver shekels.  She must marry the rapist, because he has violated her. And so long as he lives, he may not divorce her.’

Deuteronomy 22:23-29

This is your “word of God” and the basis of all the world’s morality?

Update:
The notion that these rules (and the other ridiculous ones riddled throughout the text) do not apply to Christians, because Jesus formed a new “covenant” is ridiculous.  If the text is the indefectible word of god, you can not take bits and pieces and say that some are no longer valid.
To quote the Bible,
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” - James 1:17

xcapnedwardx:

iseenerds:

Euthyphro’s Dilemma summed up nicely

Every once in a while Plato would write something with which I can actually agree. Here’s one of such things.

goodreasonnews:

CNN) — When talking about so-called family values, pastors, popes, and politicians routinely quote the Bible as if it were an unassailable divine authority — after all, they assume, God wrote the Bible, and therefore it is absolutely and literally true.

But that is a misconception. As the Bible itself makes clear, its authors were human beings, many of whom are named: David, Isaiah, Luke, and Paul. These human writers wrote over the course of more than a thousand years, and their writings reflect their own views and the values they shared with their contemporaries. So it’s not surprising that inconsistencies are frequent in the Bible, both trivial and profound.

good read here, folks.