Juan Cole To Mitt Romney: "The Bible doesn’t even approve of marriage at all!"

[kpete]

Juan Cole
Dear GOP: Top 5 Biblical Marriage Moments Far Worse Than Gay Marriage


The Bible doesn’t even approve of marriage at all! 1 Corinthians 7:8 “To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain single as I do.” So contrary to Mitt’s notion that the Bible authorizes only a single kind of marriage, of which it approves, actually it much prefers believers to die out in a single generation. Only the weak and unbiblical get married.

So this is the real problem. People like Romney shouldn’t be married in the first place, much less holding up some imaginary ideal of biblical marriage for everybody. And if all the biblical literalists would just obey 1 Corinthians, the whole problem would be over with in just a generation. Then the rest of us could get some peace and make rational policy on social issues.

And as for getting married biblically, you can do that in all kinds of imaginative ways– take two wives and someone else’s sex slave as Abraham did, or 300 sex slaves as Solomon did (not to mention the 700 wives), or your brother’s widow in addition to your own wife. And remember, if your sex slave runs away because you’re cruel to the person, the Bible (Philemon) says that other people have the duty to return the slave to you, i.e. basically imposes the duty of trafficking slaves back to sadistic sex maniacs who exploit them. But if the owner is nice and a good Christian, he might consider letting the sex slave go. But he doesn’t have to.

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the rest (some REALLY great examples - quoted from the bible, LITERALLY):
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/dear_gop_top_5_biblical_marriage_moments_far_worse_than_gay_marriage_201402

[AndreaCG]

1. Lol so my never married self is Jesus' ideal

I'll have to repeat this to some of my Christian friends.

[MisterP]

2. since when has "Biblical literalism" meant reading the Bible literally?

[NightWatcher]

3. it's a freakin book, it has no magical powers, stop running everything by it.

I'm a big fan of books too, but I don't go expecting people to behave as the characters Edward Abbey or a Hunter S Thompson story.

Yay verily we had two bags of grass...