To achieve a 100% benign Christianity, it is necessary to disavow the Bible verses that command murder for sex outside of marriage and the denigration of innocent people who are sexually/sentimentally free.
MURDER FOR EXTRAMARITAL SEX
Genesis 38:24: a married woman who has had sex outside of marriage and has become pregnant must be burned alive.
Deuteronomy 22:22: if a married woman has sex with a man other than her husband, both must be murdered. If the husband feels aggrieved, it would be enough for him to end the relationship with his wife, but the author of Deuteronomy considers the woman to be the husband’s property, for his sole use and enjoyment, and since his exclusive rights of use and enjoyment have been violated, the offenders must be murdered.
However, no provision is made when a married man has sex with women who are not married or betrothed. That is, men have the right to have sex with as many unmarried women as they want, to have all the wives and concubines they desire (Solomon had 1,000: 700 wives and 300 concubines) and even sexual slaves. They can even rape, because they belong to the dominant sex deserving of great privileges. They have given themselves the VIP wristband that grants them access to everything. In contrast, woe to the woman who exercises her sexual freedom, as she is a mere object whose ownership passes from her father to her husband.
The basis of this precept is that the woman is a possession of her husband. For this reason, the Bible commands the murder of adulterers if the married woman commits adultery, but not if the married man commits adultery.
Leviticus 20:10: ditto.
These injustices are not only characteristic of traditionalist Christianity, but of most cultures and religions that emerged after a certain point in the Neolithic period when populations and the struggle for resources increased, giving rise to increasingly hierarchical and patriarchal societies, where the strong dominate the weak, abuse them, and impose the rules that suit them (might is right). Read more…
Read LET US LIVE WITHOUT HARMING! Not even promiscuous and sexually free women
Read LIVE WITHOUT HARMING: Let us respect prostitutes
DENIGRATION OF INNOCENT SEXUALLY/SENTIMENTALLY FREE PEOPLE
A significant type of harm that can be inflicted on an innocent person is damaging their reputation and self-esteem, as well as manipulating people around them to turn against that innocent person, mistreat them, and marginalize them. This is what bullies, abusers, and perverse narcissists typically do. Instead of stabbing them from the front, they gradually place a barbed wire fence around them, closing it tighter and tighter until it pierces their flesh.
Read HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT HARMING? Let us not tell harmful lies
Well, that is exactly what the authors of certain biblical books do:
Proverbs 5:3-5: denigrates prostitutes.
Proverbs 23:27-28: ditto.
New Testament:
Revelation 21:8: The author of this book, who according to experts was the apostle John, places those who have sex outside of marriage on the same level as murderers and adds that they are all so evil that they deserve to burn with fire and sulfur, even if they are innocent people who have not caused any harm to anyone.
Galatians 5:19: Saint Paul considers any type of sexuality outside of marriage to be something impure and disgusting, and therefore the person who practices it is unclean.
Corinthians 6:9-10: Saint Paul again defames those who have sex outside of marriage, calling them unjust and equating them with thieves and swindlers.
Hebrews 13:4: he tramples on their honorability again by saying they are not honorable and that God will therefore judge them.
Ephesians 5:5: he belittles them again by stating they are so reprehensible that God will reject them.
Matthew 5:32: he who divorces commits adultery, something harshly condemned and punished by death in various verses.
Matthew 19:9: ditto
Revelation 17:1-5
These attacks on the reputation of innocent people are designed to shame them, to make them feel bad, and the consequence of such humiliations is the ruin of their honorability, social contempt and prejudice, marginalization, damage to their self-esteem, feelings of guilt, and other harms ranging from minor to very significant.
A benevolent God would never do that, so it is advisable to question these verses. And expressly disavow them, considering them not as the word of God but as written by people who lived many centuries ago.
Read FOR A WORLD WITHOUT HARM: Let us contextualize the harmful verses of the Bible
Read THE ART OF LIVING WITHOUT HARMING: Let us be good people
Thank you for sharing to reform,
Xavier Paya
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