I REJECT the term 'marital rape,' on several grounds. For one, it was created by an atheist who believed in 'free love.' Secondly, this notion was intended to reduce patriarchal control in marriage. It is feminist, and non-Biblical.
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Um....so, if a woman says 'no' to sex, but her husband fucks her anyway, it's not 'RAPE' because he owns her and her opinion.
Yeah. Thst's a religion i'd be proud to take door to door....
1. Is it the atheist part or the free love part you object to?
2. And why is a patriarchy a good thing? There's plenty of examples in the Bible of men doing shitty things from Jacob reacting his daughter being raped to Nathan disrespecting King David and his wife Abigail having to smooth things over. Why should nen be in charge?
Secondly, this notion was intended to reduce patriarchal control in marriage.
If you meant respecting the self-rule of each spouse by “reducing patriarchal control” then, yes, you’re right.
It is feminist, and non-Biblical.
I think there are more verses, both in the Old and the New Testament, about husbands having to respect their wives (you might notice no patriarch was depicted ever abusing his wives).
So besides the many good points already written here it’s not an argument to say „it was thought of by an atheist“ you at least have to argue why that would make it part of a bad thing and even then the term still is „good“ (in the sense that it deems women worth protecting from their partner)
If Hitler himself coined the term it would still be good even if he would probably used it for some stupid shit like more racism
"it's not bronze-age pre-rational nearly-cave-man ethics therefore I reject it!"
How about doing us all a favor and rejecting everything else the enlightenment brought us too, then, like modern medicine?
You know plenty of religious & spiritual people find rape gross as well, right?
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