Wednesday Bible Study: Some part of an ass

The story of Samson just gets more and more ridiculous, grotesque, and morally depraved. He may be a prototype for comic book superheroes -- he has superhuman powers -- but he ' s actually on the supervillain side of the story. However, it ' s what God wants.15 Later on, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. He said, “I’m going to my wife’s room.” But her father would not let him go in.2 “I was so sure you hated her,” he said, “that I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.”3 Samson said to them, “This time I have a right to get even with the Philistines; I will really harm them.”4 So he went out and caught three hundred foxes and tied them tail to tail in pairs. He then fastened a torch to every pair of tails,5 lit the torches and let the foxes loose in the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up the shocks and standing grain, together with the vineyards and olive groves.Evidently the Canaan SPCA hadn ' t been founded yet. Note once again that the father gets to decide who boinks his daughters -- nobody asks their opinion.6 When the Philistines asked, “Who did this?” they were told, “Samson, the Timnite’s son-in-law, because his wife was given to his companion.”So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.I ' m afraid I don ' t get the logic of this. Why did they burn the wife and father? ...
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