If the information in the meme is startling to you, you’re having a normal response.
The information is correct. The truth deserves to be heard.
Here we go, claim by claim, with direct links to Biblegateway.com so you can easily confirm that the Bible clearly demonizes and subjugates women and punishes them unfairly.
Burn The Daughter
Leviticus 21:9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
Penalty For Female Birth
To understand the full context I have included the whole chapter of Leviticus 12. If a woman gives birth to a male, she is ‘unclean’ for 7 days and her ‘blood purifying’ would last 33 days (verse 2 and 4) If she gives birth to a female, she is ‘unclean’ for 2 weeks and her ‘blood purifying’ would be 66 days. (verse 5)
Cut Off Her Hand
The King James version is linked above. An easier-to-read version, The Modern English version translates this way.
“When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.”
Female Virgin’s Worth
Deuteronomy 22:23-24 It certainly looks like if a man rapes a woman who is betrothed (engaged to be married) and she does not cry out, she should be stoned to death, along with her rapist.
“If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her. Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour’s wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.”
The next verses are telling us a different punishment for raping a virgin who is not betrothed.
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 says “If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.”
In this case of rape, the rapist must make a monetary payment to the victim’s father and he must marry the woman he raped.
Imagine this poor woman, being raped and then having to marry her rapist.
I asked AI if there was any punishment for a man raping a woman who was not a virgin. Here is the answer given. “There is no specific, standalone law in the Old Testament that details a punishment for the rape of a woman who was neither a virgin nor married (e.g., a divorced woman, widow, or non-virgin who was not betrothed). In the societal structure of the time, the legal focus of these laws was often on the damage done to the “property” or honor of the woman’s father or husband, or the defilement of a virgin who had lost her economic value as a bride”
Clearly, the woman who has a husband is held in higher regard, economically, than a woman who is divorced, a widow or never married.
Clearly, there is no punishment for the rape of a woman who is not a virgin. If you think this is unfair and unjust and even horrifying, your morals might be intact.
It’s more than fair to say that women were chattel.
I then asked if there were any verses in the Old Testament to demonstrate that a man should remain a virgin until married. The answer… “The Old Testament does not contain a verse that explicitly commands a man to “remain a virgin until marriage” in the same way that it provides specific laws for women’s virginity.”
A woman must remain a virgin until marriage in order to maintain an adequate social status, but the same does not apply to a man. If this seems unfair and unjust to you, your sensibilities are in working order.
So what is a man discovers right after marriage that his new bride is not a virgin?
The real question is, how would he know she is not a virgin? The truth is that he would not know. The truth is that thousands of years ago, they used a faulty test. The test? If the woman did not bleed during her first sexual encounter, in their minds, she was not a virgin.
This article explains it well and also tells us that only 43 percent of women bleed after their first sexual penetration.
So what was the punishment? Public stoning, as per Deuteronomy 22:13-21.
If the parents could prove that the girl was still a virgin, then the man would be stoned to death. Just kidding. The man making the false accusation merely has to pay off the girl’s father and the bride must remain with this ‘lovely’ man all of her life.
I do wonder how many women who remained virgins until marriage were wrongfully stoned to death in a public setting based on their archaic and highly unreliable test, found in “the word of god”. Despicable.
Kill The Witch
Exodus 22:18 certainly does say “Do not suffer a witch to live”.
We know of the witch burnings in the past where women were often falsely accused and burned at the stake due when superstitions ran amok. Here is a blog post explaining the horror if you want further reading. Obviously, the bible played a huge role in justifying these horrific killings throughout history.
Rape My Daughter
Another nightmarish story from the Bible is found in Judges 19.
I included the whole chapter. In short, a Levite and his concubine, or sex slave, which was acceptable according to the bible, visit a town and are sheltered by an old man. A gang of 6 men want to rape the Levite man. The old man who hosts the Levite actually offers up his virgin daughter to the men. The Levite then thrusts out the concubine who is gang raped all night by the men and is dead by dawn and found at the door of the house they were visiting. The Levite cut into 12 pieces and her body parts sent to the coasts of Israel.
The men who had multiple wives and sex slaves actually decided that this was an actual crime and it resulted in a civil war.
A similar story where women were offered up to be raped, rather than sending out male house guests occurs in Genesis 19:4-8. This time, instead of offering up a concubine to be raped, Lot, also known as a Bible “hero” offers up his own two daughters, rather than sending out his three male guests.
Silence The Woman
Indeed 1 Timothy 2:11 absolutely says that women should “learn in silence with all subjection“.
Collins online dictionary’s definition of subjection reads “Subjection to someone involves being completely controlled by them.”
Verse 12 continues… “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”
Some Christian churches have finally broken away from this archaic belief and decided that women actually might have something insightful or important to share. However, there are also far too many churches still following this antiquated ideology. Clearly, the writer, Paul, thought women were spiritually or intellectually inferior – or both.
Continued reading of verses 13-14, shows us how the writer tries to justify his misogyny. He claims that it was the woman who was deceived in the Garden of Eden, not the man.
He writes “For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”
This is just not true. Even reading the story in Genesis, there is nothing to suggest that Adam was not deceived. He knew the warning not to eat of the fruit. In fact, Eve was never even directly warned. Again, Adam knew of the warning and took the fruit of his own accord. He was deceived, if you believe the narrative.
Blaming the woman is a common theme and probably deserves a whole other blog post.
Read Six Weird Things About The Adam And Eve Narrative.
Stone The Woman
It certainly looks like if a virgin is raped and does not cry out, she should be publicly stoned. Read it for yourself and decide.
Deuteronomy 22:23-24
23 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour’s wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
The Girl Killed As A Human Sacrifice
This is yet another story never told from the pulpit or in Sunday School. Many Christians don’t even know the story exists.
Read in Judges 11 the story of the young girl sacrificed so that her father could win a battle.
Wives Submit To Husbands
Ephesians 5: 22-24
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
No explanation needed. The misogyny is obvious.
Female Inferiority
1 Corinthians 11:3 clearly states “the head of the woman” is a man.
Click on the full chapter for more misogynistic statements, 8 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.”
Kill The Pregnant Woman & Baby
Sometimes, babies and the unborn should not be protected. Nor should the mothers. They should all be killed.
Hosea 13:16
Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Other Noteworthy Items
Just when you thought it could not get worse, it does.
Before Yahweh created the woman, he thought a suitable helpmate for the man would be an animal. When that didn’t work out, he created the woman – Eve
Genesis 2:18-22
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Paul later claims that Adam did not even sin by taking the fruit and blames it all on Eve
1 Timothy 2:14
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Women were not important enough to be mentioned in genealogies.
If you ever decide to study the multiple genealogies listed in the Old Testament, you will notice that it is very rare that women’s names are included. There are about 10 of women’s names listed out of close to 1200 men’s names. Women did not matter.
Polygamy was certainly condoned and widely practiced – but only for men.
It should also be noted that not only could men have multiple wives, they could also have multiple sex slaves – referred to as ‘concubines.
While the man had sexual rights to all of his wives and concubines at his will, the women were to be faithful to the one husband.
No honest Christian with any degree of Old Testament knowledge will deny these facts.
Women slaves had fewer rights than male slaves.
Exodus 21:7 “If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do.
For the sake of brevity, I’ll include just one verse, but there are more.
Jesus defied the societal norms of the day concerning women.
My blog posts are there to point out the inconsistencies and horrors of the old testament. I see some evidence that Jesus spoke of a different father, than the character of Yahweh from the Old Testament.
When I asked AI to summarize the teachings or actions of Jesus concerning the societal norms of the day surrounding the treatment of women, here is the answer I was given.
Women: In the patriarchal society of the time, women were generally relegated to secondary roles, not allowed to be religious students by Rabbis, and their testimony was considered unreliable.
He treated women with dignity and respect, defending those who were being judged (like the woman caught in adultery).
“Jesus had women disciples who traveled with him.
He taught women, such as Mary, who sat at his feet (the position of a male student).
He spoke publicly with women, including the Samaritan woman at the well, which defied both ethnic and gender norms, as Jewish men did not typically converse with Samaritan women or a woman of questionable reputation in public.
Women were the first witnesses he commissioned to proclaim his resurrection.”
I don’t always agree with AI’s answers but I do still find it helpful to summarize the consensus of what is on the Internet. The last statement regarding the first witnesses, in my view, does not actually seem to have much to do with the decisions or actions of Jesus. It was just what seemed to have occurred, although the jury is out on the events as they are told in the Bible. It should be noted that the four gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) all give different accounts that contradict each other, when documenting their versions of the discover of the empty tomb of Jesus. Read more on that here.
Jesus And The Canaanite Woman
I noticed that AI left out the story of the Canaanite woman. This is a case where Jesus clearly did not treat the woman with respect. In fact, he initially ignores her cries for help. Her pleas irritate the disciples and they address their frustration with Jesus who replies ““I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel’. Only for the Israelis? Really? Interesting! Not a quote you’ll hear from a Christian friend, but one to take note of.
Jesus clearly did not want to concern himself with this woman. Even when she finally cries and kneels before Jesus, he dismisses her again and even compares her to a dog. When the woman acknowledges the comparison to that of a dog, Jesus does finally help her. The story is found in Matthew 15:21-28.
Not A Single Woman Ever Had A Hand In Writing A Single Sentence Of The Bible
Out of approximately 40 writers of the Bible, all were men.
Conclusion
The Bible clearly calls for different treatment between men and women. Do not let anyone tell you that this was done because some loving god wanted to protect women. That is utter drivel.
Just by these verses listed here, it’s clear that the authors felt that women were inferior and deserved inferior treatment. It could not be more clear. Use your brain and see the reality and let it sink in.
Know that those who fought against women’s rights used the Bible to back up their arguments. There is plenty of ammunition to be used.
These verses are just a smattering of the injustices and horrors from the Bible that perfectly demonstrate why we should not let human writers from thousands of years ago dictate how we live our lives today. It’s completely insane.
See it for what it is, not for what you want it to be.
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