Are there insults in the Bible?

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• History can indeed be offensive. Women as possessions is historical fact and is still in practice today. It was Christianity that elevated women above level of posession.

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  by rabid on September 16th, 2011

• Ah it was eh? Many Christians in the U.S. and elsewhere subscribe to submission theology basing it on scripture.
  
  Christianity made women, starting in Genesis, wicked. Christians attempted to erase matriarchal societies and to subjugate women not empower women. The Bible, which many Christians suggest is the word of God, suggests such obscenities as rape, force-able abduction of women, killing men to carry off their women and the death penalty for rape victims.
  
  So...I am sorry, I am not buying that rubbish.
  
  It should also be pointed out that we aren't just talking about the distant past. Christians in modern society also seek to subjugate women.

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  by Wynper on September 16th, 2011

• They are a bunch of jerks that only read the parts of the Bible that will benefit them.
  22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. ----This is where the self serving men stop reading---
  
  25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ---- Love them to the point that they are willing to give their lives for them. ---26 to make her holy, cleansing[b] her by the washing with water through the word,---- At this time in history women were not educated and the men were to educate their wives.--- 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. Men should no more harm their wives than they would themselvesand the things of comfort for a man should also bring comfort to the woman.---- 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[c] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. ----If the man is to be respected he must also show respect for his wife. What goes for one goes for the other because they are one.

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  by rabid on September 16th, 2011

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• I think what he meant was that they're ripe and sweet to nibble on. Alright, enough said, don't get me started.

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  by level headed on September 15th, 2011

• Yeah, that would be pretty weird. Seen banana boobs, melons, balloons, never grapes.

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  by Want To Sleep With A Miner on September 15th, 2011

• Don't forget, the Bible is written in parables. It can have more than one meaning. One could view it as a cluster of grapes or one can view it as referring to it's sweetness. Not to be taken literally as being sweet tasting. Unless she rubbed them in Honey.

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  by level headed on September 15th, 2011

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• Why don't you just add that URL to your username and save yourself a bunch of time?

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  by Anonymous on September 15th, 2011

• why don't you drop "" Meridian the "" from your user name and add "god is" , and quit wasting your time .?

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  by The Anonymous Witch on September 15th, 2011

• Because my answers usually consist of more than "God is imaginary," whereas it seems as though most of your religiously-oriented answers consist of a condescending one-liner and a link to and/or copy-and-paste-job of that particular website.

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  by Anonymous on September 15th, 2011

• i think maybe you should look through my answers ,, you may find more than your memory will allow at this time .
  
  adding a link that is relevent to the question , was way more productive then what you attempted in your comment .
  
  sure i use that link now and then in my answers ,, because it answers alot . not to mention exposes alot .
  
  show me where it does not relate to any question ,, and i'll gladly request it removed .
  
  till then .. its not my fault if you dont like the answer . or it's better than yours . ;-)

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  by The Anonymous Witch on September 16th, 2011

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