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2010-03-09
How unexpected—problems begin to arise in the marriage! Who could possibly foresee any tension when your husband takes your slave as a second wife for the sole purpose of impregnating her and stealing her child? I mean, aside from EVERYONE!
As expected, Genesis 16:4-5 tells us that Hagar begins to hate Sarai for telling her husband to rape her. Well, yeah, did she expect, a big "thank you!"? While the bible is rather silent on the moral implications of this entire story, biblical commentators have made up plenty. One of them, Matthew Henry, even blames Hagar for causing problems! As we all know, it's always the raped slave's fault.
I'd like to point out that the bible is often a Christmas gift for children. It's a good thing they hardly ever read it!
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Uncle Jellyfish writes:
| Well, in the US, many rape victims actually blame themselves for the assult, so I don't see why Biblical scholars would think differently. Up until 50 years ago, rape wasn't even taken seriously except by the victims and those directly involved, and many didn't even know what was actually rape, especially if they knew the perpetrator. o-o
Yay for being educational with this comment...
Now for something less educational...
THEY'RE IN A TENT, CHARLIE!
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Ray writes:
| Well then. Not to ignore the elephant being raped in the tent's living room, but.... Poor Abram. He's being yelled at by his wife in a time when she's of lower position than him, and for what? Raping someone she told him to rape.
Obviously, he's not very assertive.
Offensive commentary aside....On the bright side, at least a baby will be born into the fictional world.
And then probably sacrificed to an old man in the sky. So yeah. |
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Ladyofthemasque writes:
| ...Technically "God" was considered gender-neutral by the ancient Hebrew people, neither male nor female. It was only during the translation of the ancient texts that gender was brought into it. God was God, aka "I Am" ...which is a rather stupid way to answer the question "Who are you?" imho. "I Am" is an answer that would slightly more suited to the question "What are you?" but even then, it's still a piss-poor response.
...Of course, this is all in English (which in and of itself isn't the most stable of languages), so maybe "I Am" in the original language had a different, more compatible meaning? |
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Ray writes:
| Oh yeah, sorry. Usually, I try to keep mentions of God gender-neutral, but this time I forgot to. Oh well, I'm kind of hateful/indifferent to it's existence, anyway, so it's kind of difficult to say I care, no offense, and sorry(Again.). |
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Baughbe writes:
| Yeah, even though the original language has 'God' as gender neutral. It's pretty obvious even from the beginning which gender is favored over the other. So the 'genderizing' (Yeah! I just made up a word everybody will understand!) of the Absolute Overlord Of All (except for those people that IT didn't create) is pretty understandable. (all asides aside and besides IT is the gender neutral) |
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Laura writes:
| I sit upon my chair at this desk and with a nervous little grin wonder how the heck did humanity make it this far if we have so many fanatics that think the bible is absolute... Hey The Almighty Guru will you keep doing this comic till you finish the bible or will you do a spin off when and if you do the whole bible? |
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Gonz writes:
| You should totally add your comic to comicHovel.com so I can save it to my faves. =] |
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TheAlmightyGuru writes:
| We have lift-off!
http://comichovel.com/comicinfo.php?comicid=131 |
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TheAlmightyGuru writes:
| Laura: Only time will tell. I'd like to do the entire bible, and then move on to various other sacred books, but it will take many years to finish the bible alone.
Uncle Jellyfish: A magical liopleurodon! |
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kitteh writes:
| well that's just off the roll, isn't it? |
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