Tag: Punishment

Punishing raped women

In what context could stoning a raped woman to death ever be justified?

In the Bible, Jesus tells us that God’s law shall never pass away until Heaven and earth are no more (Luke 16:17/Matthew 5:18). The Old Testament book of Deuteronomy literally translates as ‘the law repeated’. This law, the law of the old testament as written in the Hebrew bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) is the only law that Jesus, a Jew would, could have been talking about. And so it is to Deuteronomy that we turn when asking how to deal with rape victims.

Original sin: Does it make sense to you?

Two people who I never knew did something that I didn’t do, so I deserve to burn in Hell!

I can be forgiven for what I didn’t do, because some other people crucified a bloke who didn’t do it too!

I didn’t do it! I’m not guilty of it!

By the book

By the book… a book most Christians have never read.

“It’s by the book!” Those Bible-bashing God-botherers said,
But if you look you’ll notice it’s a book they never read!

They’d better hope they’re wrong. They won’t enjoy the judgement half as much as they think.

Where the sun don’t shine

They tell me, oh so gleefully, that I’ll go to Hell

A very short, slightly poetic response to those who so gleefully threaten atheists like me with eternal torture.

Empty threats from the followers of a coercive, fictional God.

Evil atheists?

Many religious people will tell you that it is impossible for humans to behave well without a God belief. In that case, I’m glad they’re religious, if that’s the best they can manage.

Many religious people will tell you that it is impossible for humans to behave well without a God belief. They claim that without superstitious magical thinking people will go around raping, murdering, stealing, cheating and doing all sorts of horrendous things. Whenever people talk about ALL humans they’re really just talking about themselves – the only human they really understand. In that case, I’m glad they’re religious, if that’s the best they can manage.