Re: Only Sluts Get Raped! (1st Timothy 2:9)
I would ask you all to look with compassion upon those who are raped. The idea that "only sluts get raped" is a sweeping and stereotypical statement one that we should never use to judge others by. There may be cases where a woman dresses so provocatively that she entices a man to rape her but I as you to remember that Jesus said that "anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away" (Mthw 5:28-29)
Does this not remind us that it is the perverse nature of the man lusting after a woman who is not his wife or his betrothed that is causing the sin rather than the dress of the woman?
We are called upon as members of a peace loving and kind religion to remember that we should “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” (Mt 5:44), All who hear these messages of such unkindness and of such judgement I ask you to pray for those who speak them, and not to allow them to cause you pain or to judge them to harshly. I would also ask those who condemn victems of rape and judge them so hastily to remind themselfs of jesus' words; “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." (Mthw 5:1-2)
Before more criticism and judgement is shed, I would ask you all to first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
I would ask you all to look with compassion upon those who are raped. The idea that "only sluts get raped" is a sweeping and stereotypical statement one that we should never use to judge others by. There may be cases where a woman dresses so provocatively that she entices a man to rape her but I as you to remember that Jesus said that "anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away" (Mthw 5:28-29)
Does this not remind us that it is the perverse nature of the man lusting after a woman who is not his wife or his betrothed that is causing the sin rather than the dress of the woman?
We are called upon as members of a peace loving and kind religion to remember that we should “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” (Mt 5:44), All who hear these messages of such unkindness and of such judgement I ask you to pray for those who speak them, and not to allow them to cause you pain or to judge them to harshly. I would also ask those who condemn victems of rape and judge them so hastily to remind themselfs of jesus' words; “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." (Mthw 5:1-2)
Before more criticism and judgement is shed, I would ask you all to first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
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