Saturday, March 15, 2008

Biblical Stories--the morals

Sodom and Gomorrah:
Lot (nephew of Abraham) and his wife and two daughters are living in a town of sodomites.  G-d threatens to destroy the town.  Abraham asks G-d if he will save the town if there are 10 good men in it.  G-d, reluctantly agrees: 10 good men=no destruction.  Alas, all the men in the town are sodomites except Lot.  G-d, decides to destroy it but first sends two male angels to get Lot outta there.

Male angels get to Sodom, spend the night at Lot's house.  In the middle of the night, Lot and the angels awake to find the house surrounded by men demanding that Lot send his male house guests outside so they can have sex with them.  Lot refuses but offers his virgin daughters instead.  Towns people don't want virgin daughters!  Lot, wife, daughters and angels flee.

G-d says, don't look back.  Wife does, turns into a pillar of salt, Dead Sea is formed.

Lot and daughters escape to a cave.  Daughters, being, young, and very focused on reproduction, realize that in a cave with their dad they will never find a husband to impregnate them.  They get their dad drunk with wine and rape him in his sleep.  (question: how do you get wine in a cave?)

Lot and daughters are heroes. 

Moral: Consensual sodomy=BAD.  Offering your virgin daughters up to be raped by an angry, horny mob=GOOD.  Getting your dad drunk and raping him so you can bear his child=BETTER.

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