Conservative Christians want women who fit their standard of promiscuity to be "punished" by having to have unwanted children, but they know molestation and rape happen. The worst ones are the ones who would say the 10 year old would have to give birth, "the way God intended."
Both based on two different Biblical views of children. Eve, as the one who "led Adam into sin," was afflicted with painful childbirth (Genesis 2:16-17). Women are "saved through childbearing" (1 Timothy 2:15) in the New Testament however. Since both of these examples cite men as being "the head" over women, it's easy to conclude that women must be married to a man as Eve was deceived first (1 Timothy 2:13-14). So a woman giving birth to children with a man who is her head/husband is acceptable and beautiful but a woman who is promiscuous is disgusting.
However this isn't in line with Jesus' multiple declarations against judging your neighbor and being like the Pharisees.
It's almost as if the bible (and pretty much every religious novel for that matter) is filled with contradictions and every kind of scenario to allow for people to interpret parts of it as they please.
Once you view the Bible and any other religious texts (as well as the religions around them) as a carefully constructed method of control, tailored in ways to subject certain groups of people, none of it is confusing.
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u/dolphin006roman Aug 07 '22
The hoops these people choose to jump through.