Submitted 10 hours ago by over_clox@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Thanks Christians, you can shove that bible right up your collective asses.
You know why? When the Bible was written, crimes against children were considered property crimes against their father. Thou shalt not steal, and thou shalt not covet, both indirectly protect kids about as much as they’re intended to. Which isn’t much.
When the Bible was written is a very abstract concept covering a large timeframe
Interesting take, and not entirely wrong either imo. Though, I think the real reason is simply that such a commandment wasn’t necessary, because it was already implied from the very beginning. God gave Adam and Eve the mandate to care for his creation, and in conjunction with the fact that “Love the Lord your God” is the very first commandment (which means to follow his commandments), respecting the people that God created in his image would have absolutely unquestionable in the mind of the ancient Israelites.
The really hard to accept part is how this respect for what God made included the destruction of what is not of him, which included people. It’s a very alien concept to us today in our culture. The important part is that what you read in the Bible (esp. the Old Testament) cannot be taken at face value. Everything is seeped in historical context that often makes things seem at a glance to be the opposite of what they actually are. The translation from Hebrew and Greek compounds this problem.
TL;DR: If you want to take solace in confirmation bias, it’s not hard to do, and to blame you for doing so would be incredibly hypocritical of me. Remaining truly objective is the most grueling exercise in self-awareness and accepting uncomfortable possibilities anyone could ever undertake.
Interesting perspective. But yeah it seems like they danced all around the subject altogether.
Just as they don’t mention animal abuse, those morals don’t keep people in line.
The ten commandments are a old testament thing, textually written by Moses as he attempted to copy the ones God had written and that Moses shattered after the golden calf.
Christianity extended the Jewish scripture with the gospels, which include a story where God Himself Slumming As A Human was asked what the most important part of the law was, and Jesus said “love” twice.
If “love everyone as you love yourself” doesn’t lead you to not abusing children, I don’t think any book of good behavior is going to stop you.
The letter J wasn’t even invented until the year 1524AD, so as a logical person, I think it’s all a load of horseshit written by people after the year 1524, not all that long in historical context to the invention of the printing press in 1440, to brainwash and control the masses as they gradually started teaching average people how to read.
Government + Vatican control of the people…
Well 10 commandments are part of Deuteronomy, older than christian religion, and the book was nitpicked by those who institutionalized Christianity.
It’s on the 5 that Moses dropped.
Neither in Judaism nor Christianity are the Ten Commandments the only religious rules that exist.
“Thou shalt not rape” just didn’t make it onto the top 10 list.
Did they even have a definition of ‘rape’ back in biblical times?
Sorry I’m not exactly a biblical expert, but I refuse to believe that Jesus’ mother Mary was a virgin, someone had to have fucked her…
Please mods don’t chop my head off for this comment…
Rape is mentioned in Deuteronomy of course.
Probably because when it was written, marrying kids and having them reproduce pretty much as soon as they hit puberty was the norm.
It wasn’t the norm. Child birth is dangerous, having children that young was even more dangerous. Children of rich families were married off for political reasons, but even they waited until they were older.
And they still study that today… ☹️
Just because it’s not spelled out, doesn’t mean it’s not there. Critique made without a genuine effort to understand the cultural and historical context isn’t worth much.
Very first commandment (as summarized by Jesus) is “Love the Lord your God.” Combine that with the mandate to Adam and Eve to care for God’s creation, and the core tenant of Judaism that loving God implies obedience, and the concept of respecting that of his creation which bears his image becomes immediately obvious.
I don’t give a shit about cultural and historical significance, when today is what counts, and the leaders and oligarchs in charge that supposedly believe in Christian faith are actively committing genocide, bombing schools of children, and they’re entangled in a pedo ring…
If this is what the Bible is all about, ‘fOrgIVe mE faThER fOr i haVe sinNeD’ is all about, then fuckit, burn the bible and start a new belief system that actually makes sense and respects people in general, rather than abusing and killing them en masse and destroying the ‘holy land’.
What’s holy about the land anyways, ancient history, or the bomb craters today?
Sorry, Jesus ain’t coming back to save anyone, people need to put down their arms and go home to serve and protect their families.
Fuckall with war in the name of the invisible man in the sky.
One could say that’s what the New Testament is, and Jesus put a lot of focus on loving others. The two commandments, which the ten are built upon, is pretty comprehensive. But don’t worry, people will find a way to excuse bad behavior if they really want to do it. If it isn’t religion, it will be nationalism, race, culture, which direction the bill of your cap faces, or if the color of your socks match.
they are probably covered by other biblical laws that apply to adults… like, if you rape one you just have to marry it because you can’t burden the father with damaged goods, unless it didn’t scream enough, then it shall be stoned to death.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 52 minutes ago
Real quick Google, absolutely none of this information vetted so take it with a pinch of salt.
10 commandments written around 1300-1600 BCE. Average life expectancy 20-35 years.
You’re not an adult for very long before you snuff it, and if you wanna have kids you gotta start as early as possible.