RE: Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis
December 23, 2018 at 7:28 pm
(This post was last modified: December 23, 2018 at 8:53 pm by GrandizerII.)
Taboo: the Bible Version (starring Lot and his two daughters)
Genesis 19:30-38
Now for some sexy time (depending on one's sexual fantasies).
In order to escape the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, we saw Lot and his two daughters move to a small town by the name of Zoar, even though the original plan was to head straight to the mountains. Now all of a sudden, in the first verse of this passage, we see that they leave Zoar in order to go settle in the mountains and live in a cave. It's not clear to me why they did so, but it's obvious that this serves as justification (plot-wise) for what's about to happen.
You see, the daughters of Lot were getting really anxious, with their biological clocks ticking, and they had no one around to make babies with. No one ... except for their father. So they plan to have him drunk and then have sex with him. The first night was sexy time with the elder daughter, and the second night was sexy time with the younger daughter. On both nights, Lot was completely unaware of what happened.
As a result, both daughters became pregnant by their own father. The elder daughter gave birth to Moab, the father of the Mobites; the younger daughter gave birth to Ben-Ammi, the father of the Ammonites. It's clear that this story was meant to reinforce the stigma towards the Moabites and the Ammonites.
It's a weird story for sure, and I remember the first time I read this as a kid (this would've been early teens or a bit before), I felt really naughty and even wondered if it was a sin for me to read this story (that's how guilty it made me feel). In fact, this was actually the first time I was ever exposed to the whole idea of incest, and it was ... traumatizing. Imagine how innocent I was at the time, only for this innocence to be destroyed by the contents of the Bible itself, lol.
Thankfully, I was later exposed to some classic Taboo cassettes, and that helped me overcome the trauma eventually. Incest fantasies FTW ... as long as it's not with your own flesh and blood, in which case "ewww".
Genesis 19:30-38
Now for some sexy time (depending on one's sexual fantasies).
In order to escape the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, we saw Lot and his two daughters move to a small town by the name of Zoar, even though the original plan was to head straight to the mountains. Now all of a sudden, in the first verse of this passage, we see that they leave Zoar in order to go settle in the mountains and live in a cave. It's not clear to me why they did so, but it's obvious that this serves as justification (plot-wise) for what's about to happen.
You see, the daughters of Lot were getting really anxious, with their biological clocks ticking, and they had no one around to make babies with. No one ... except for their father. So they plan to have him drunk and then have sex with him. The first night was sexy time with the elder daughter, and the second night was sexy time with the younger daughter. On both nights, Lot was completely unaware of what happened.
As a result, both daughters became pregnant by their own father. The elder daughter gave birth to Moab, the father of the Mobites; the younger daughter gave birth to Ben-Ammi, the father of the Ammonites. It's clear that this story was meant to reinforce the stigma towards the Moabites and the Ammonites.
It's a weird story for sure, and I remember the first time I read this as a kid (this would've been early teens or a bit before), I felt really naughty and even wondered if it was a sin for me to read this story (that's how guilty it made me feel). In fact, this was actually the first time I was ever exposed to the whole idea of incest, and it was ... traumatizing. Imagine how innocent I was at the time, only for this innocence to be destroyed by the contents of the Bible itself, lol.
Thankfully, I was later exposed to some classic Taboo cassettes, and that helped me overcome the trauma eventually. Incest fantasies FTW ... as long as it's not with your own flesh and blood, in which case "ewww".
