Bible Trivia: Abstinence Only! Really!

In Deuteronomy 22:25-27, Moses says that if a man rapes a virgin who is pledged to be married, he must:

A:  pay her father 50 shekels

B:  marry her

C:  die

D:  become a slave to her father for seven years, with a lifetime option

Its weird to realize that thongs represent progress.  

Sexy sexy progress.

ANSWER:  C 

²⁵ But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. ²⁶ Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, ²⁷ for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her.

The punishment for rape is death according to the bible.

Brian is damn lucky he didn't live 2000 years ago...

The good news is that this isn't a hard rule in the bible and rape isn't seen as universally wrong.  It's treated as something to be judged on a case by case basis.

Numbers 31:15-18

¹⁵ “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them. ¹⁶ “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the Lord’s people. ¹⁷ Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, ¹⁸ but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

Who could have possibly said something so horrific?

Oh...