I'd recommend skipping the part in Judges where the Jacobites rape a woman to death. The entire story there are just signs of absolute degeneracy I never want to hear about today. I have a special brown marking pencil for messed up stuff like that.
The Bible is often descriptive not prescriptive. God is by no means condoning what happened but is necessarily describing it as a necessary lesson in cultural moral development. The word of God is living and powerful, treat it as such.
This is applicable to the right as well as the left. We have to read our Bibles.
I'd recommend skipping the part in Judges where the Jacobites rape a woman to death. The entire story there are just signs of absolute degeneracy I never want to hear about today. I have a special brown marking pencil for messed up stuff like that.
The Bible is often descriptive not prescriptive. God is by no means condoning what happened but is necessarily describing it as a necessary lesson in cultural moral development. The word of God is living and powerful, treat it as such.