RE: The Crazy, Screwed Up Story of Lot
December 4, 2014 at 12:57 pm
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2014 at 12:57 pm by Nope.)
Professor, Rape is a form of domination and humiliation involving sex. The crowd outside Lot's door were probably not for the most part gay men. The text says that all the men gathered at Lot's door and I doubt that every man in Sodom was gay.
If I believed in the bible god and hadn't been influenced by Western culture, I would read the verses in Ezekiel and Genesis together and come to the conclusion that Sodom was punished not for their sexual practices but because they weren't hospitable to strangers, ignored the poor and were prideful and not because of homosexuality. The ancient Romans and Greeks were pretty open to homosexuality also and god didn't smite their towns.
If I believed in the bible god and hadn't been influenced by Western culture, I would read the verses in Ezekiel and Genesis together and come to the conclusion that Sodom was punished not for their sexual practices but because they weren't hospitable to strangers, ignored the poor and were prideful and not because of homosexuality. The ancient Romans and Greeks were pretty open to homosexuality also and god didn't smite their towns.
