Your Email:

Subject:

Message:
Entry: The Wrongs of "Rights" Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_wrongs_of_rights#7067 Post contents: A good thought provoking post and one I will read again. Allow me to make one comment: you say "the Bible never criticizes inequality" - indeed, it positively encourages it. The established Christian religion seems, at least in part, founded on Roman culture, unsurprisingly since it was largely spread by the Romans. In Roman culture women were not equal to men and that inequality had the endorsement of God in societies founded on the Christian religion, such as Britain. And if we refer to the Bible we see that "There are at least 8 different types of marriage sanctioned in the Bible (listed here), 6 of which directly include rape (in practice all 8 probably would) and 6 of which directly subjugate women (again, in practice all 8 would). In fact, if a man was lacking a wife he simply had to find himself an unmarried virgin, rape her, pay 50 shekels, and she was obliged to marry him" Charming! So I think a few human rights were well overdue. (source of quote: http://web.mac.com/targetine/iWeb/Sepher%20Ha'eleph/Blog/96031C19-4B3B-418C-9B64-0FADCB33D9D4.html) Sent at: 2008 07 24