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    Another extremely cultural institution in the OT law was where unmarried and non-engaged women who were raped then became the wife of their rapist for life, meaning that the rapist couldn't divorce her whereas everyone else could get a divorce. How does that make sense ? Because noone wanted to marry a non-virgin who wasn't married previously and the idea was that the rapist now had to take care of her for life. Unless her father refused. She could instead continue to live in her father's house but then he might die young and she would now be an orphan. Orphans including unmarried women of any age had difficulties with sustaining themselves just like widows that didn't remarry. So the regulations on that considered her being sustained for life as more important than her emotions in relation to her rapist. At least it meant that the rapist couldn't get away with raping someone then forgetting about it afterwards. Having to take care of her for life was seen as a form of punishment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    I read in England where a rich Muslim couple hired a maid from a 3rd world nation but basically treated her like a slave and abused her....absolutely disgusting
    This is quite common. Human trafficking (slavery) is alive and well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    This is quite common. Human trafficking (slavery) is alive and well.
    Yeah, there are more slaves today than at any time in history. Not in percentage but in numbers. In Mauritania in Western Africa slavery was legal only a few decades ago. I wonder how someone would have approached a Mauritanian legal slave with the gospel in terms of how to relate to his slave master ? I'm not condoning anything, I'm merely saying that it can be a difficult question.

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