Violent Rape Is “God’s Judgment Upon a Culture,” and Some of What Society Calls Rape Shouldn’t Count
Violent rape is a judgment of God upon a people […] Violent rape is God’s judgment upon a culture, and individual women who are part of that culture are included in the judgment.
In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 1999, from Fidelity: What It Means to Be a One-Woman Man, cited to the source.
So the only way to condemn any rape is to turn to the standards of God’s law. But once we have done this, we discover that some situations which our society calls rape should not be included. Violent rape is a judgment of God upon a people […] Violent rape is God’s judgment upon a culture, and individual women who are part of that culture are included in the judgment. But this does not mean that they as individuals “deserved” it.