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Atheist and anti-theist\u00a0Bob Seidensticker<\/a>\u00a0runs the influential\u00a0Cross Examined<\/em><\/a>\u00a0blog. He asked me there,\u00a0on 8-11-18<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve got 1000+ posts here attacking your worldview. You just going to let that stand? Or could you present a helpful new perspective that I\u2019ve ignored on one or two of those posts?\u201d<\/span>\u00a0He also made a general statement on 6-22-17<\/a>: \u201cIn this blog, I\u2019ve responded to many Christian arguments . . . Christians\u2019 arguments are easy to refute.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0He added in the combox<\/a>: \u201cIf I\u2019ve misunderstood the Christian position or Christian arguments, point that out. Show me where I\u2019ve mischaracterized them.\u201d<\/span> I\u2019m always one to oblige people\u2019s wishes, so I decided to do a series of posts in reply.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also been said,\u00a0\u201cbe careful what you wish for.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0If Bob responds to this post, and makes me aware of it, his reply will be added to the end along with my counter-reply. If you don\u2019t see that at the end, rest assured that he either hasn\u2019t replied, or didn\u2019t inform me that he did. Bob\u2019s words will be in\u00a0blue<\/span>.\u00a0To find these posts, word-search \u201cSeidensticker\u201d on my\u00a0atheist page<\/a>\u00a0or in my sidebar search (near the top).<\/p>\n

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In his post,<\/span> \u201cGod Creates Evil\u201d<\/a> (4-27-18; update of original post from 8-20-14), Bob stated:<\/span> \u201cGod also has no problem with rape (Deuteronomy 22:28\u20139), . . .\u201d\u00a0Later in the article, Bob claims that God \u201cadvocated\u201d<\/span> rape. In another paper (originally 12-13-13<\/a>), Bob opined: \u201cThe Bible . . . talks about when rape is okay.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0And again on 6-17-15<\/a>: \u201c[T]he Bible says much\u00a0about all sorts of embarrassing marriage customs and prohibitions sanctioned by God: . . . rape for fun and profit, . . .\u201d<\/span>Alright; let\u2019s take a look at his passage and alleged \u201cprooftext\u201d:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 22:28-29<\/strong> (RSV)\u00a0\u201cIf a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,\u00a0[29] then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her; he may not put her away all his days.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First of all, that is not<\/em> having \u201cno problem\u201d with rape, in the Mosaic law which we believe was given to Moses and the ancient Hebrews by God. Christian apologist Glenn Miller, who runs the wonderful<\/span> Christian Thinktank<\/em> website<\/a>, dealt with the topic of<\/span> rape in the Bible<\/a> at extreme length. He commented on this passage as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here is a clear case in which the rapist has (1) stolen the girl\u2019s ability to guarantee paternity, and by doing so has greatly limited her future options; and (2) has limited her father\u2019s options of arranging a good marriage for her. The rapist is now forced to become what he has cheated the girl out of\u2014a \u2018well off\u2019 husband. The fifty shekels bride-price (see below on the Exodus 22.16 passage) is\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>five years worth of average wages<\/em>, and is the price\u00a0\u00a0paid by the Pharaoh Amenophis III for the women of Gezer destined for his harem! The girl\u2019s future is now assured\u2014she has a guaranteed support source (he cannot divorce her)\u2014and she has a \u2018big\u2019 bride-price on deposit. The law has protected someone who was attempting to help the community, by preserving her virginity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How all that is somehow deemed as God having \u201cno problem\u201d with rape is, I confess, beyond my rational capabilities to comprehend. Of course, Bob, in his rush to mock God and Christianity, neglects (for some odd reason) to also include the passage immediately preceding:<\/span><\/p>\n

Deuteronomy 22:25-27\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cBut if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.\u00a0[26] But to the young woman you shall do nothing; in the young woman there is no offense punishable by death, for this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor;\u00a0[27] because he came upon her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her.\u201d (cf. 22:23-24)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Does that<\/em> sound like God is all gung-ho about rape? The rapist is to be executed. Nothing is to be done to the woman because she has done nothing wrong, and the rape is analogous to someone being murdered. The difference in the earlier case was the woman not being betrothed (the cultural difference of which was explained by Glenn Miller above).<\/span><\/p>\n

In the article, \u201cWhat does the Bible say about sexual assault?\u201d<\/a>, Southern Baptist Katie McCoy writes:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Bible is not silent about rape.\u00a0The accounts of sexual assault against women are heartbreaking, even gruesome. But they are not brushed under a rug or hushed up. In fact, of the three accounts describing a woman who was sexually assaulted, each of them precipitated civil war. When Jacob\u2019s daughter, Dinah, was violated by the son of a neighboring ruler, Shechem, her brothers murdered him, his father, and the all of the men of his city in revenge (Gen. 34). After the Unnamed Concubine was gang-raped and left for dead by men in the tribe of Benjamin, the other tribes went to war against them upon hearing of her injustice (Jgs. 19-21). And after Tamar was raped by her half-brother, Amnon, her brother Absalom killed him, and incited a rebellion against his father, King David (2 Sam. 13). Rape was neither covered up nor ignored. Instead, it was answered and avenged.\u00a0It was such a cultural convulsion that it was answered with outrage and further violence. The cases of rape in Scripture tell us something about the cases of rape we are hearing today: These women must be heard and they must be protected.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Christian apologist Kyle Butt, takes on another unsavory atheist tactic regarding the Bible and rape, in his article,<\/span> \u201cGod did not condone rape\u201d<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Militant atheists of the 21st century delight in accusing God of condoning the most heinous immoralities. They insist that the God of the Bible, especially of the Old Testament, was a murderous villain guilty of far worse than His human subjects. Richard Dawkins accused God of being a \u201cmisogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully\u201d (2006, p. 31 [The God Delusion<\/em>] ).<\/span><\/p>\n

One attempt that has been made to bolster these unfounded accusations is to suggest that in the Old Testament God condoned rape. Dan Barker commented: \u201cIf God told you to rape someone, would you do it?\u00a0Some Christians, ignorant of biblical injunctions to rape<\/strong>, might answer, \u2018God would never ask me to do that\u2019\u201d (Barker, 1992, p. 331, emp. added). If the honest truth seeker were to ask to see the \u201cbiblical injunctions to rape,\u201d he would be struck by the fact that no such injunctions exist.<\/span><\/p>\n

The passage that is most often used to \u201cprove\u201d that God condones rape is Numbers 31:25-40. In this passage, the young women who were taken captive after Moses destroyed the Midianites were divided between the Israelites and the priests. The priests were given responsibility for 32 of the women. Skeptics often suggest that these women were supplied so that the priests could abuse them sexually and rape them. But nothing could be further from the truth. The skeptic errs greatly in this regard either due to his ignorance of God\u2019s instructions or willful dishonesty.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Deuteronomy 21:10-14, Moses specifically stated what was to be done with female captives:<\/span><\/p>\n

When you go out to war\u2026and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and desire her and\u00a0would take her for your wife<\/strong>, then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails. She shall put off the clothes of her captivity, remain in your house, and mourn her father and her mother a full month;\u00a0after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife<\/strong>\u00a0(emp. added).<\/span><\/p>\n

It is important to understand that God has never condoned any type of sexual activity outside of a lawful marriage. The only way that an Israelite would be morally justified in having sexual intercourse with a female captive was if he made her his wife, granting to her the rights and privileges due to a wife. Notice that the Israelite male could not \u201cgo in to her\u201d (a euphemism for sexual intercourse) until she had observed a period of mourning and cleansing, and he could only \u201cgo in to her\u201d with the intent of being her husband.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the skeptics\u2019 allegations about God condoning rape are demolished by the very clear instructions in Deuteronomy 21, the attack is usually shifted, and God is accused of being unjust for allowing war prisoners or slavery of any kind, regardless of whether or not rape was permitted.\u00a0 . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

For the skeptic to imply that God condoned rape, using Numbers 31, without mentioning Moses\u2019 instructions in Deuteronomy 21, is unconscionable. It is simply another instance of dishonest propaganda designed to discredit God and the Bible.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Photo credit:\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0Rape of Tamar<\/i>\u00a0(c. 1640), by Eustache Le Sueur (1616-1655)<\/span> [public domain \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Dave has been interviewed on many nationally syndicated Catholic radio shows, including \"Catholic Answers Live\" (twice), \"Faith and Family Live\" (Steve Wood), \"Kresta in the Afternoon,\" \"Son Rise Morning Show,\" \"Catholic Connection\" (Teresa Tomeo), and \"The Catholics Next Door.\" His large and popular website, \"Biblical Evidence for Catholicism,\" was online from March 1997 to March 2007, and received the 1998 Catholic Website of the Year award from \"Envoy Magazine.\" His blog of the same name (now transferred to Patheos), begun in February 2004, contains more than 1,500 papers, at least 500 debates or dialogues, and over 50 distinct \"index\" web pages. Unsolicited correspondence has indicated many hundreds of conversions (or returns) to the Catholic faith as a result, by God's grace, of these writings. Dave's conversion story was published in the bestselling book \"Surprised by Truth\" (edited by Patrick Madrid; San Diego: Basilica Press, 1994). Sophia Institute Press has published six of his books: \"A Biblical Defense of Catholicism\" (Foreword by Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J., 1996 \/ 2003), \"The Catholic Verses\" (2004), \"The One-Minute Apologist\" (2007), \"Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths\" (2009), \"The Quotable Newman\" (editor: 2012), and \"Proving the Catholic Faith is Biblical\" (2015). He is co-author (with Dr. Paul Thigpen) of the inserts for \"The New Catholic Answer Bible\" (Our Sunday Visitor: 2005), and editor for \"The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips, and Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton\" (Saint Benedict Press \/ TAN Books: 2009). \"100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura\" was published by Catholic Answers in May 2012. His \"Quotable Wesley\" compilation was published by (Protestant \/ Wesleyan publisher) Beacon Hill Press in April 2014. Several of his 49 books are bestsellers in their field. Dave maintains a popular personal Facebook page, a Facebook author page, and has a Twitter account as well. He offers almost all of his books in e-book form on his own Biblical Catholicism site (http:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/), at a permanent deep discount: only $2.99 for ePub, mobi, and AZW, and $1.99 for PDF. His writing has been enthusiastically endorsed or recommended by many leading Catholic apologists, authors, and priests, including Dr. Scott Hahn, Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Marcus Grodi, Patrick Madrid, Steve Ray, Tim Staples, Devin Rose, Mike Aquilina, Al Kresta, Karl Keating, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Brandon Vogt, Marcellino D'Ambrosio, and Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J. Dave has been happily married to his wife Judy since October 1984. They have three sons and a daughter, and reside in southeast Michigan (metro Detroit).","sameAs":["https:\/\/biblicalcatholicism.com\/","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dave.armstrong.798","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@LuxVeritatisApologetics"],"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/author\/davearmstrong"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}