1/1/2024 0 Comments Sodom and gomorrah proust![]() He offers them, instead, his two virgin daughters, saying they may do whatever they want with the girls if they will only spare these guests. Lot comes out, and pleads with them not to do this wrong. They loudly demand that Lot send out the foreign visitors so they can “know”(which means rape) them. They enter his home and enjoy a good meal with him.īut then a mob surrounds the house, men of all ages. Lot prevails on them to accept his hospitality. They arrive and find Lot sitting at the gate of the town. In the Story of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19), two of the three divine messengers of God are sent to Sodom to see if these towns are as wicked as God has heard. The oldest creed/covenant in the Bible, attributed to him, is an often repeated one, Remember to welcome strangers, for you yourselves were once strangers in a strange land. He had developed a code of hospitality for strangers out of his experiences. Being a guest was a sacred status in Israel, a deeply held piety of bringing strangers in from danger and treating them with the dignity and deference Abraham gave to the three strangers who turned out to be divine messengers from God.Ībraham himself had been a stranger in the wilderness for years, and he had met with many dangers as a guest and also some kind welcome. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is a story about mob violence, about rape intended for strangers who were not from those towns, strangers who were guests in the home of Lot, a cousin of Abraham. Nothing at all, because Sodom is not – is not – a story about homosexuality. So what do Jesus’ words about welcome for his disciples have to do with homosexuals? In a word, nothing. Such virulent religious haters hold up the story of Sodom as one of their main biblical anti-gay texts. The Westboro Baptist Church greeted the news of the Orlando massacre by composing a song, Shooters, Keep Coming Around. Last week in Sacramento, CA, Baptist preacher Roger Jimenez said that Orlando was a safer place with 50 gays dead, and he wished it could have been more. ![]()
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