I guess it was better than the alternative — stoning the victim to death.

Not a meteor. The animals, birds, fish, and trees don’t deserve to be wiped out of existence.

My college roommate passed out in the shower at her boyfriend’s apartment, fell, and sliced her forehead open to the skull. She lost a ton of blood, nearly died, required reconstructive surgery, and was out of school for over a month. The part my chill and very liberal mom described as “a parent’s worst nightmare” was…

No God-fearing father wants to raise a soiled impure deflowered unchaste daughter. Throw in a bastard grandchild and you’re really asking too much of a Christian. /s

Based on the article, it was statutory rape. Some Christians believe that unless you fought off your rapist and did everything in your power to stop it, it’s not rape, so statutory rape doesn’t count. Some say you should be willing to die rather than be raped. But the general rule has always been that men had to marry…

My mom did the same thing when I moved in with my boyfriend (now husband). I was like 23 (?) and nervous about telling her that I was moving in, because she’s pretty traditional. And she was totally cool about it...I was blown away. A few months later, she came to visit and was horrified that it was a 1 bedroom…

When I moved in with my girlfriend in grad school, my mom said “So it’s a two-bedroom place so you each have your own room?” Sure mom, that’s totally what it is.

Insanely, that is literally the law in the Old Testament, that a rapist has to marry his victim. Of course, that is also literally Bronze Age thinking, where women/girls are commodities and the idea was “you break it, you bought it.”

The truly funny part of her bizarre morality play was that my sister was in her 30s and had a kid when this all happened. I mean, the jig was up, ma.

I sort of think that in this day and age it’s more about saving face in church (which is still disgusting). Some people carry around a surprising amount of baggage about that stuff. My (pretty chill) mother did a bunch of hand-wringing when my sister moved in with her longtime boyfriend two years ago because “what…

I wish they'd unplug me from this matrix.

“You break it, you bought it” in its most literal interpretation.

Can someone explain to me how getting married after after committing the sin somehow makes up for it? You make a mistake when you're 14 and then are saddled with a rapist for a husband for the rest of your life? Yes, that is what a loving god would want to happen. Makes sense.

Think of it this way...this is an unusual story, people were punished for harming this girl, and the general consensus of people reading about it is one of disgust. That was not always the case. That is not the case in some parts of the world right now. Things are getting better, but slowly.

When I was in 10th grade, one of my classmates dropped out to get married. I ran into her more than 20 years later. She was divorced, with a few kids of her own. She said she wished someone could’ve talked her out of that nonsense. Her mother had to sign for her to marry that idiot.

If every detail of this story makes you sick to your stomach, let’s pool our resources and build a spaceship to another planet. Downside: we might all die a horrible freezing death in the void of space or blow up on the launching pad. Upside: no more of this shit.

The culling can’t come fast enough.

Or a meteor. I’m not super-picky.

We are so overdue for a plague

He also noted that she should smile more.