The Decline of Patrimonial Rape Culture
The Question: “Do you think that the Bible has good advice (specifically concerning human relations) or not?”
The Answer: No, emphatically not, not as far as race, gender, ethnic, marital, familial, fraternal, sororial, slave/master or any other kinds of human relations, unless you’re an authoritarian, patriarchal, dictatorial, domestic fascist, that is.
In example (Quotes compiled by Franklin Veaux):
1 Samuel 15:3: Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants [some translations have this as “sucklings”], cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.
Psalm 137:9: Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us, he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. (Interestingly, this is exactly what the Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch sailors did to the Native infants in the West Indies. In fact, it’s been a common genocidal tactic of invading armies since biblical times.)
1 Peter 2:18: Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the cruel.
Deuteronomy 25:11–1: If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
Exodus 21:7–8: When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again.
Luke 14:26: If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters — yes, even their own life — such a person cannot be my disciple.
Employing ‘terror and awe,’ such practices have deep theological and religious roots in so-called ‘Cattle Cult mentality.’ Mosaic Law, citing male entitlement to captive women and girl children as lawful chattel or ‘booty,’ or as the ‘spoils’ of war, is cited at length throughout the Old Testament. God, Moses, Joshua and a host of other Old Testament patriarchs stridently order ethnic ‘cleansing,’ outright genocide of conquered males and male offspring, and the rape and impregnation of virgin girls, always citing divine, religious or ideological grounds. In this ethical system, the Earth and all of its assets (chattels and appurtenances) were given into the stewardship, ownership and control of the ranking men of the Cattle Cult in question.
Awarded by the Creator (often the parochial, tribal war god of the soldiery, such as Yahweh, or Mithras in the case of the Roman legions), at the moment of the Creation, all of the earth is designated subordinate to a ruling, masculine elite in the constructed cosmology of the raiders. We see this pattern transcribed in Genesis. ‘Chattels’ are ‘property,’ which is to say, portable aspects of ‘territory.’ This is why slavery, rapine, haremizing, and concubinage have consistently been elevated and enshrined within the institutions of war as ‘sacred’ mandates, as evidenced in Mosaic purity laws and other patricist codes of the ancient Near and Middle East. And it is why such practices — as the instruments of a thriving, global, illegal underground — are universally, tacitly accepted today.
