pasithea

There have been a lot of passages where God tells the hebrew that it's fine to enslave and rape people who don't worship as they do, but this set really hit me uncomfortably. It's a bit too vivid, a bit too horrifying.

21:10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD
thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them
captive,

21:11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and
hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

21:12
Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her
head, and pare her nails;

21:13 And she shall put the raiment of her
captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail
her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go
in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

21:14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt
let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for
money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast
humbled her.

Take her, strip her of her identity, lock her away for a month, then rape her, when she's weak, lost, alone, dehumanized. If she still has spirit and you don't like it, tell her she can go free as a raped, famililess beggar because even selling her into slavery would give her some sense of purpose, some feeling that she has a place to be. Utterly destroy this woman for that is the word of the lord.

This set of passages, describes almost verbatim how to inflict the greatest possible level of psychological abuse on a victim. Yeah, she's probably going to stay with you and serve you because you've so utterly destroyed who she is that she becomes dependent on you. You sick fucking twisted shitbags.

Stuff like this is why I have nothing but contempt for religion.