Rape and abuse in the Bible is actually more present than I initially thought.\u00a0 I have always heard the song, “Halleluiah” and knew that it was about David looking at Bathsheba, and I have heard a few other stories with servants being raped and abused.\u00a0 However, I never realized how connected rape and abuse today connects with the Bible.\u00a0 Often times, we don’t like to think of the negative aspects of the Bible.\u00a0 However, I think that understanding that not all of the Bible is all sparkles and miracles is really important.\u00a0 Two huge issues today are rape and abuse, and I think that its interesting to see the parallels between now and Biblical times.\u00a0 They lived in a society that was ruled by men (patriarchy) and women were subordinate to men, sometimes not even being included when it comes to referring to a group of people with men and women combined.\u00a0 This all takes me back to my GHS class, Women in Society: Rights and Resistance.\u00a0 In this course, we looked at women in society.\u00a0 It was very eye opening to see the amount of abuse that still occurs in our world today, and how oblivious we become to it.\u00a0 Despite the many obstacles that women have overcome, there are still many to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rape and abuse in the Bible is actually more present than I initially thought.\u00a0 I have always heard the song, “Halleluiah” and knew that it was about David looking at Bathsheba, and I have heard a few other stories with servants being raped and abused.\u00a0 However, I never realized how connected rape and abuse today […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196870,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ti251thebible2020fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}