Whatever happened to "the meek shall inherit the earth": Part 3 - Rape--1

Recently I've been reading newspaper commentary regarding words said by certain Congress-people. According to them when a woman is raped and conceives, it's God's will. These people have come under media fire, but the truth is, it's much more complex than that. Much more. 

Evil exists in the world. The question of evil, in this case, can be narrowed to one person's will against another's: a man asserts himself over a woman's will and rapes her. In most cases, a condom isn't used, perhaps this woman isn't on birth control and just happens to be ovulating: she conceives. Is this a blessing? 

In the Bible, in ancient Jewish society children were a blessing--women were married young and set about having children (particularly male children) and running the household. Society was centered around the temple and family. Children were provided for, educated, given work to do with their families and mentored into their role in society.

Now, in the US and other first world nations, increasingly, society is organised around the individual. Children are not always a blessing and are not always looked after either physically, mentally, emotionally or socially.

In Bible times, if a man raped a woman, he was forced to marry her, and if she were already married, the guilty couple were stoned, making the consequences of conception via rape void. Without paternity tests, any children conceived from adultery would likely go unnoticed unless the husband was a soldier and away at war.

So can we apply biblical culture to situation that have never really occurred biblically? 

There's a huge difference between applying biblical principles and biblical culture.  Methinks we need to know the difference before we open our mouths. More to come :)