The Good News is massively outweighed by the bad
• Skeptics & Atheists
Iain Macwhirter takes an entertaining look at the holy bible.
Lot keeps a house in Sodom, and is visited by two angels seeking refuge. However, a large group of Sodomite men come and besiege Lot’s house demanding to have sexual intercourse with the angels. Lot bars their way and tells them: “Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you and you can do what you like with them” (Genesis 18:20). The Sodomite men aren’t interested in Lot’s virgins, and burst into his house, after which the angels turn them all blind. God tells Lot and his family to flee and not look back. But of course, his wife doesn’t listen and meets her salty end.
Does this mean that Christians should be offering their virgin daughters to gay men?
Thereafter, Lot hides in the mountains with his two daughters. Bored without male company, they get their father drunk and each has sex with him. Lot’s daughter becomes pregnant with Moab, father of the Moabites and Ben Ammi, father of the Ammonites (Genesis 19:34).
I am not making this up. This is exactly how it is written. I realise you are not supposed to take the Bible literally. But even as metaphor or parable, I can detect no moral message or guidance from these bizarre episodes in Genesis. And that is only the start.
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