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Those that oppose God, and refuse to knuckle under, come to the point of deserving to be killed. If a cow is diseased, with, say, mad cow disease, you don't grant it equal rights, you put it down. If a dog bites a kid's face off, and is rabid, foaming at the mouth, it needs to be killed, not out infecting and maiming others. God has needed to kill some vile peoples, that fought Him, and His. My best advice is don't fight God. You will lose. If you are a city full, so will your city, in some cases, as a merciful overseer knows would be needed. Crying about those wicked that had to be put down, and accusing God of doing it for less than purest of reasons, is self righteous ignorance of the facts. The numbers God had to cull, really are dwarfed by the wicked, greedy, filthy, useless wars of man, for no good reason! I read that about 42 million unborn kids each year are snuffed, hacked, burned, or otherwise mutilated, and destroyed. In 10 years, one decade, that is about the population of the US, Canada, and Australia, and then some, if my rough count was right!! Every decade!!! Not to mention the man made famines caused by greed, and wickedness, and selfishness of man! Then there is the pollution and cancers, and other diseases, and death dealing devices of wicked man, and his world!! Then we get into the millions slaughtered on the highways, by wicked driving, drunkenness, speeding, and etc!!! Then there are the wars, and all those WOMD that will be used some day, as well as the cluster bombs, and village destroying bombs, etc, already used!!! This world is but a graveyard, and wicked, pipsqueak man trying to point his dirty little finger at a pure, and just, and loving, and righteous, and concerned, and saving God, is a conceited, cowardly, cocky, two bit, and twisted travesty!

Why Biblical rape law is just and good

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A lot of you have mentioned the Biblical rape law as a reason not to believe Christianity, or a reason not to take the Bible seriously. Here is my rationale for why the Biblical rape law makes sense.

Deuteronomy 22:25: "But if out in the country a man happens to meet a girl pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die."
Deuteronomy 22:28: "If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives."

We need to start with the proposition that modern rape laws in the United States are broken. Most rapes and sexual assaults are unreported. Only 10-20% of defendants are convicted. The average sentence for those convicted is 3-5 years. Review of DNA evidence shows that ONE THIRD of men convicted of rape are wrongfully accused. The reasons for false accusations should be fairly obvious. Moreover, the nature of the crime means that witnesses and evidence make it naturally hard, if not impossible, for fact-finders to make accurate determinations in all but rare or violent instances of rape. One also needs to start with the proposition that the death penalty is the appropriate punishment for rape. I have absolutely no problem with the death penalty for forcible rape. This one squares with my reason and sense of justice. Rape ruins a person's life, so the rapist's live should be ruined in return. One must also recognize that the law DOES NOT REQUIRE THE PARTIES TO COHABITATE. The woman would be free to live where ever she wants, mostly likely with her father. The law would then have the effect of making the rapist a virtual eunuch, ON PENALTY OF DEATH. Since he would be legally married, if he ever had sex with another woman for the rest of his life, he would be executed for adultery. It gets worse for the alleged rapist of the single woman. If that single woman decided not to cohabitate with him, that would be sending a VERY clear signal to the community that she was the injured party. So her father, her brothers, and other interested men in the community, such as myself, would forthwith go and beat the snot out of the rapist, and they would enjoy the exercise. If the rapist managed to survive or elude them, he would be forced to flee to one of the cities of refuge set up in the Law and be exiled for the rest of his life. If he owned real and personal property, I'm sure the city authorities would find a way for the victim’s family to buy the property at reduced or no price. Beating, exile, and forfeiture would be significant punishments.

I believe this mandatory marriage law would be a VERY significant deterrence. In fact, it would be so significant that if implemented in the United States, a single instance of rape would be so rare and so shocking that it would make national news. So would the law make sense, even though a few single women annually would be on the wrong end of the stick? Yes, absolutely. Preventing 10-20 women in the United States annually from getting married in a nation of 300,000,000 is unquestionably better than having 1/4 women be sexually assaulted at some point in their life, as is the case now.

Of the 31102 verses in the Bible, I'm down to only two verses that I have trouble with. The Biblical rape law troubled me for 15 years, but it troubles me no longer.