Genesis 19 begins:
The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city.
In the previous post, I questioned who the 3 men were who visited Abraham, and was confused by the blurred line between the men and God. Here we seem to have the men defined as 2 angels, and 1 other man (God?).
Anyway…
The angels, the men of Sodom, and Lot says “Hey, rape my daughters!”
Lot sees the men, and insists that they stay with him.
“No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”
Whoa! I guess God wasn’t messing around – these are bad people! Lot and the angels must have been appalled. Let’s see what happens:
Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them.
WHAT!?
Ok, I have read this before, so I’m not so surprised to read it this time around, but this is definitely not the story I was taught as a little girl. Evil men in Sodom, yes. Angels, yes. Lot offering his daughters to men who would rape them!? I WAS NOT TAUGHT ABOUT THAT!
Fortunately, the men (wait, they’re men again?) come up with a better plan:
But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
Lot escapes with his family
The story continues:
The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”
Lot tries to take his future sons-in-law, but they won’t take him seriously. I wonder if it has anything to do with Lot trying to throw their future wives to a crowd to be raped… :/
Lot and his family run to Zoar
Lot begs to run to a small town near the mountains instead, and the men agree with this request:
But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, please! Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die. Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”
He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.)
By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.
Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Whew, Lot is safe, and he has a new home. But wait… double take… what happened to Lot’s wife? They reached Zoar, but she looked back at the destruction of Sodom, and turned into a pillar of salt? Lot can offer his daughters to be raped, but his wife can’t look at a burning city. Makes perfect sense, yeah, no…. No it doesn’t….
Lot goes to the mountains and sleeps with his daughters
After all the fuss about the mountains, Lot ends up there anyway:
Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave.
Since their mother has been turned into salt, and their would-be husbands were burned in Sodom, the daughters come up with a plan to continue their family line:
One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth. Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.”
That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.” So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites of today. The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites of today.
What type of moral standard is this!?
I would like to understand what God’s definition of evil is here. He thought the people of Sodom and Gomorrah were evil enough that the entire city needed to be destroyed, yet Lot was willing to throw his daughters out to those evil men to be raped, his wife was apparently unworthy enough that she was turned into salt, and his daughters got him drunk and slept with him, but they’re not considered evil?
I’ve read a lot of ‘Christian’ sites about Mr Lot and his family. Because Christians are unable to accept that god condoned mass murder, infanticide, abortion, rape and incest all in one story their minds short circuit and they do all kinds of gymnastics to defend their god. The god portrayed in this one story is all you need to know about the Bible.
Imagine a god murdering the entire town you live in be ause there are a few people god thinks arent acting like he wants them to. Some god eh? Christians refuse to even consider what really happened in Sodom and Gomorah. God said all the people there were sinners. Really? What about the children, toddlers and babies. There had to be a lot of them since apparently everyone was fornicating. But the children weren’t. And since women were apparently copulating with everything that moved mist of them had to have been pregnant. But god murdered them too. And he murdered all the unborn fetuses. But wait! What about all those Christians who say they are pro-life? Why aren’t they upset with a god that murders children and fetuses? That’s probably why they never talk about the story of Lot and if they do they don’t do it honestly. They instead lie by omission or go through lot of mental gymnastics trying to justify the indefensible.
The god of the Bible has a long history of murdering huge groups of people. The biggest mass murder is when god caused the great flood. But wait a minute. Egyptian history predates biblical stories but curiously no records of a flood exists in any Egyptian records. And Egyptians were meticulous record keepers. So there’s another huge hole in the Bible. The flood didn’t happen at all. But assume it did. It would take a psychopathic god full of vengeance to murder every person on earth except for the Noah clan. And among all those people god murdered were pregnant women so god killed every fetus on earth too. But the god of the Bible kills fetuses a lot.
In all of human history god is the biggest abortionist of all. Over 108 billion people have been alive at some time on this planet. Out of those 108 billion people there must’ve been trillions of spontaneous abortions.
According to many Christians miscarriages are ‘God’s way of correcting mistakes’. But hold on! I thought god was supposed to be perfect? Why would he have to correct fetuses that he created by killing them? Hummm.
So again, god is the biggest abortionist in world history. So why do Christians resort to murdering secretaries, guards and doctors who are associated with abortion clinics? Why do abortions enrage them when the god they worship routinely kills fetuses?
But back to lot. God thought it was fine for Mr Lot to give his virgin daughters to a mob to be gang raped. You should read all the contortions Christians go through trying to defend the god that thought it is okay to gang rape girls. No matter how you slice it the god that condones allowing girls to be gang raped is one sick, twisted bastard.
But Mr Lot’s girls are spared by the two angels and the angels tell the Lot clan to flee. But the would-be husbands of the two Lot girls don’t believe the angels and stay in town. How would they know the two men visiting Mr Lot were real angels anyway. It could’ve been a trick. But they stayed in town so god murdered them too. What the hell was their sin? They didn’t do anything wrong. What if a couple of men showed up at your house and they told you they were going to destroy your town and everyone in it? You’d call 9-1-1 and have them arrested.
So god murders everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah, including the would be husbands of the Lot girls. During their flight away from the two towns Mrs Lot turns around to see what she is fleeing so god murdered her instantly. But murder wasn’t enough. God turned her into a pillar of salt. But wait again! How could anyone know she was turned into salt. There were no witnesses. The Lot girls said they thought they were the only ones left on earth. So that means there were no other people around to witness Mrs Lot being turned into salt. The anonymous writer of this part of the Bible is caught in a direct lie. It’s obvious the writer just made up the story.
As soon as the ‘all-knowing’ god murdered Mrs Lot god said “Oh shit! I forgot to give Mr Lot a son!” I thought the god of the Bible knows everything that’s going to happen. Hell, god couldn’t even foresee the need to give Mr Lot a son before murdering his wife. So then god goes into plan B.
Now we get to the part where the Lot girls rape their father. On the first night the oldest daughter (the Bible conveniently leaves out their ages) gets her dad so drunk he passes out in the cave they are living in. Then she copulates with him. This is another unbelievable part of the Lot story. How could a man who is passed out drunk get and maintain an erection? I guess biblical scholars will say the erection was divinely inspired. Holy hard-on! This is the first recorded case of someone using a date rape drug to have sex. In this case the drug was alcohol. They didn’t have quualudes back then. I wonder if Bill Cosby was motivated by the story of Lot and his rapist daughters.
On the next night the younger daughter rapes her dad. It was another ‘miracle’ erection I guess. And the fact that Mr Lot could orgasm while passed out drunk is yet another ‘miracle’.
It turns out both daughters got pregnant. It’s just a tad strange that both girls would get pregnant from their first intercourse. It’s highly unlikely that their cycles would be such that one could even get pregnant, let alone both of them.
Ok, now they are both pregnant and later they both give birth to boys. They needed males to carry on the family tree even though DNA from males and females are both adequate to carry on the Lot bloodline. But the people back then didn’t know that. But if the writer was truly inspired by god he would have been made aware of that fact.
The writer of this story made another big mistake. Why would a real god be concerned about bloodlines? Since he created humans he surely would know about DNA. But the writer didn’t know anything about DNA. It was a male dominated society where only men were counted. It was the custom at the time that only males could pass on blood lines. I can understand an illiterate writer of that time conforming to customs of that era but why would a god conform to customs of a primitive era? A real god would know that both males and females pass on bloodlines. So this again proves that this story has nothing to do with a real ‘god’s word’ and is entirely fiction. And if it’s not fiction then you have to come to the conclusion that the god portrayed in the Bible is a psychopathic murderer who loves killing, rape, incest and is driven by vengeance.