Zerby on Rape

“I suppose it's quite a big deal for any of our Teens to be raped, it must have been quite traumatic for her. However, for us adults who have Ffed & been with men who have gotten rather insistent & what you might call "forceful," I don't think we should have considered that such a big deal, especially having had Dad's Letter on "Rape" (ML#528) & understanding that the Lord may even allow these things to happen as a chance to witness His Love to others.”

People choose to commit or not commit violent crimes, and human choice is not something God controls — whether it’s a random choice that puts the victim in the wrong place at the wrong time or a sexual offender's purposeful choice to be violent. Suggesting God allows a rape to happen makes the victim and the Lord responsible for the perpetrator’s choice.

"Of course, nowadays everybody is scared to death of AIDS, but in a case like that I certainly don't think the Lord would allow anything like that to happen, & we just have to trust him that it won't. Being held at gunpoint must have been very frightening, but since she is married & is already used to lovemaking & versed in sexual practices, the actual rape shouldn't have been so traumatic."

Rape has nothing to do with sex beyond the fact that the victim’s genitals are violated by the aggressor. Since Maria is versed in sexual practices, no doubt she will find a way to lay back and enjoy being gang raped anally with a dirty floor mop. Surely the Lord will let it happen so the Queen of his End-Time Army can have a mystical experience of Divine Love.

"I hope that the adults didn't blow it up into more than they should have. I think in fact, that they should have made it very low key in their conversation with her & with anyone else who happened to find out about it. After all, we used to make love all the time with people we didn't know anything about & who were "beasts" & were out for nothing but sex. But we were able to turn that around & use that "lust of the flesh" to offer them some love of the Spirit. So I think if I were having to counsel K. & comfort her and reassure her, that would be my approach. It sounds a little like a Heaven's Girl situation, & I hope she took it as such."

A key component of sexual offender treatment involves enhancing the perpetrator’s ability to feel empathy for the victim.

Empathy: (pronunciation: ‘emputhee)
The ability to understand and be sensitive towards another person's situation, struggles, or feelings. An act of imaginatively stepping into another person's perspective and considering how things look from over there, as if one were an insider while one is not one in fact.