WittyUsernameHere answered Friday July 29 2011, 5:02 pm: So, do you know anything about inheritance laws of the past? About how a man's inheritance pretty much determined his social standing and political power and everything else about his life?
Because pre-marital sex laws were made by man in order to combat issues like having kids with multiple people which would distort inheritance, and diminish trackable family lines. It comes from a time without effective birth control when a "bastard" child was legally not due anything from his parents by way of inheritance and would thus be mostly adrift as an adult, forced to make his way in a world even more unfriendly to class mobility than our world today.
The bible was written by men. The Torah is nothing but a reflection of Jewish values and the laws required of a people who were nomadic and without a home. The Torah (badly translated) is the source of your quote and the new Testament was assembled by the Catholic church 400 years after the death of Christ.
I've read every bit of the bible. Remember the part where a guy who takes a girls virginity owes the father money? Did you pay/do you intend to pay a dowry to the father of the woman you want as your wife? If not, that's a sin. According to the same book you just quoted.
Of course, dowry doesn't exist any more. That means that, well, every married couple in the US has a sin they have not repented for and are going to hell. Cause that's how it works, according to your stupid little book.
Unless you want to say the old testament wipes all that out, in which case that includes your passage about pre-marital sex.
I was raised Catholic, by the way. I know ALL about the bible. I was in bible study until I was 15 when I realized that pretty much every single vocal Christian I've ever met was a hypocrite about something they preached and realized that if there is a God he is entirely absent from modern religion.
Why else would Ted HaggarD condemn gay sex while having it, or Catholic priests take sexual advantage of parishioners they were supposed to be helping?
Oh, that's right, because your god is bullshit, a creation of imagination meant to enslave the uneducated to a set of principles dictated by an entity (religion) concerned only with power and the keeping of it.
You are a sheep. The bible even says so! You need not have any opinions or questions. Doubts are a fault! You are meant to be led by your nose into whatever eventualities those who tell you what to think and how to think it decide you should be led into.
I'm sorry you are so invested in beliefs designed to enslave your mind and will. I'm sorry you cannot accept the utter lack of divinity present in the often self contradicting bible. I'm sorry you are not intelligent enough to make an argument other than "Read something someone else wrote! See!"
You only have people's word that God answered the question himself (through people).
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