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Where is there child rape in the Christian New Testament? The Old Testament Jews were a savage people, but so were all nations 3000 or 2500 years ago. If you weren't you would have been quickly exterminated. And the OT gets less brutal as it progresses so it can be read as a spiritual growth story (and the NT, which began as messianic judaism, builds on the foundations of the old). Now I don't believe in God, but I consider the New Testament a human miracle. So far ahead of the morality of its time was its message. The Romans were closer to ISIS with great architecture in their patriarchalism, crucifixions, blood sports, brutal and genocidal warfare. And to go back to the initial point, raping slave children was a commonplace practice in Rome. They did not share in legal personhood. Killing children wasn't a rarity either. You could kill your own child with impunity if the patriarch thought he/she had dishonoured the family (again drawing comparisons with islamism). New Testament formed the basis for a wholly new morality, for the 1500-year self-domestication of Europe. The New European man, who gradually, all the detours, growth pains, setbacks acknowledged, grew into the ruler of the Earth, into a civilizing force, until it succumbed back into barbarism in the 20th century and along with close to 100 million European people killed the West's faith in itself, in the nobility of its mission. As a result the west of today lives in endless atonement with no salvation. Striving for no city upon the hill for ourselves. No cathedral-thinking animates us. All positive visions of large civilizational vistas have withered. Having negated our ancestral soil the ground has become barren. Our dreams don't take root. Without generational depth the moments in our lives are tik-toking away. Craving born out of our lost sense of Meaning seeks fixes in cheap substitutes. Gorging, drinking, gratifying bodily appetites, being entertained... anything to null the void.
