1. What Rape Is and Isn’t; Does God Condone Rape?
First off, what is rape? I’ve had some experience dealing with the different scenarios people find themselves in. Some have been heartwrenching and sickening; some have been as arbitrarily revisionist as a friend who wanted a divorce saying to me, “But he raped me. We had sex when I didn’t want to.”
If I had a dime for every person, male or female, who’s had sex when they didn’t want to out of a sense of obligation to their partner, or their vows or commitments of whatever kind…So I’d like to start by drawing a distinction between rape and charity. read more >
1B. Polemical Notes on Modern-Day Human Trafficking
Let’s take a moment to examine what we’re really talking about here.
Svay Pak is the pit of hell. It is a town of alcholism and drug addiction, and sex trafficking. Many of the adults are up through the night drinking and doing drugs and having sex with children, and so we have to start the vacation bible school later each morning because the children sleep late. In Cambodia children are a commodity. They are sources of income for the parents.
2. Tribal Society, Legal Rights and Social Considerations
In order to charge God with condoning crime, it needs to be shown that His laws condone crime, or that God is indifferent to crime.
If the Bible’s God is not real, the only important thing is how the fantasy of him affects people who live with it–whether it causes draconian and unjust laws or social hardheartedness toward injustice.
Fortunately, this can be tested out in detail with very little work. For our study, we have an entire national constitution and criminal/civil code claiming to come directly from God. read more >
3. Prevention of Trafficking, Modification of Secular Slavery for Rights Protection
Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land may not fall to harlotry, and the land become full of lewdness.
No pimping. It’s just not nice. And it’s only one extreme of several practices which ultimately leave women the losers–today and here as well as then and there. read more >
Israel took difficult measures to eliminate a threat from those seeking to destroy Israeli social order and law through an aggressive propagandist campaign. This threat attempted to destabilize their nation by substituting an ideology which prominently featured degradation and invalidation of women, including medically unsafe casual promiscuity in the name of a divine authority. read more >
Footnote on Human and Divine Justice: The Question of Murder and Execution
In July 2008, a man named Vince Li got off a bus in the small town where my in-laws live. The teenaged son of Dad Dyck’s employer spoke to the man in the street. The man offered him a laptop for $50. The kid took the deal, thinking for that price, he could deal with whatever issues the machine might have.
The teenager achieved his 15 minutes of fame as a witness when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police confiscated the computer as evidence in the most disgusting and horrific public murder within Manitoba memory. read more >
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