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16 Apr 2014, 8:22 pm

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I take it from the comments so far, that no one actually believes that God is real. You're all trying to explain the event via humanistic cause and effect.

If you were to accept that God is real and re-read the account, it would probably make more sense.

Trying to imagine a place like Sodom and Gomorra is difficult for us today. I guess a free love hippy camp where nothing is prohibited, beast, children, each other, and whatever drugs you can get hold of, is as close as I can get.

Towns/cities of any size needed walls, as they were both strategic and a generator of your enemy’s armies. Small towns wouldn't have needed walls, as they are neither. There is always a risk of being robbed or destroyed. I guess it comes down to lifestyle choice.

Actually, I'm a practicing Lutheran, so yes, I'm a believer. I just happen to disagree with my particular church body on certain matters not pertaining to grace and salvation, such as homosexuality (I'm pro gay rights, if my posts hadn't made that clear).

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17 Apr 2014, 10:36 pm

I think people have the right to disagree. It's their choice.

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21 Apr 2014, 2:28 am

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21 Apr 2014, 5:26 am

There is another example of this kind of behavior in the bible, this time with an obvious sexual intent. The tribe of Benjamin surrounds a house and demands to "know" the people inside. They send out a concubine who is raped to death. The other Jewish tribes then engage in a genocidal war against the Benjamites and almost wipe them out. In the end they realize they've almost eliminated one of the twelve tribes and they kidnap women to help replenish them.

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21 Apr 2014, 8:40 am

simon_says wrote:

So it seems like certain locations were known for gang rapes in antiquity and were handled in vigilante fashion.

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21 Apr 2014, 10:01 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

GregCav wrote:

Imagining Soddom and Gomorah is easy for us moderns because there are plenty of places like it now (like Bangkok Thailand). But you dont see God smiting Bangkok. And Hurricane Kartrina laid waste to all of New Orleans EXCEPT the French Quarter (the sodom-and-gomorah-like part of town). So even if you're religous the story needs some elucidation.

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21 Apr 2014, 10:18 am

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simon_says wrote:

So it seems like certain locations were known for gang rapes in antiquity and were handled in vigilante fashion.

The story begins and ends with rape so I'm not sure that rape is the issue. It was fine to capture and rape certain women. The initial sin might have been inhospitality again. Or murder. In general it's a story to promote a monarchy. It's highlighting the failure of the tribal system.

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21 Apr 2014, 11:09 am

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So it seems like certain locations were known for gang rapes in antiquity and were handled in vigilante fashion.

Are you talking about Sodom? It is a strange story. Tough to figure out. Maybe the meaning is simply if God sends angels to you town don't try to sexually assault them?
Being inhospitable and rape are two different things entirely. One is a certain indifference or rejection the other is assault. So you see, two different things.
However, in the story, God seems to approve of protecting someone even if it means doing a deplorable act like offering your own flesh and blood in order to protect another person. Heroic sacrifice?

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21 Apr 2014, 11:12 am

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Why, how magnanimous of the other twelve tribes to keep the Benjaminites alive after all that genocide (sarcasm)!

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21 Apr 2014, 11:14 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

I think a case can be made that if the angels had arrived as women, the crowd would still have wanted to rape them. The sin of Sodom wasn't homosexuality, but rape and murder.

The Rabbis have argued that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of the lack of hospitality toward strangers.

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21 Apr 2014, 11:19 am

ruveyn wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

I think a case can be made that if the angels had arrived as women, the crowd would still have wanted to rape them. The sin of Sodom wasn't homosexuality, but rape and murder.

The Rabbis have argued that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of the lack of hospitality toward strangers.

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What's more inhospitable than rape and murder? :lol:

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21 Apr 2014, 11:38 am

I think Sodom and Gomorrah go far beyond the basic inhospitable. They are portrayed as dangerous cities where men rape at will, in gangs, and the preference is toward raping other men.
The women are careless, fat and lazy. They do not care for the poor so there are many wretched, sick people wailing in the streets with no where to turn.
Just sounds like a cesspool, basically.

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21 Apr 2014, 11:58 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

I think a case can be made that if the angels had arrived as women, the crowd would still have wanted to rape them. The sin of Sodom wasn't homosexuality, but rape and murder.

The Rabbis have argued that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of the lack of hospitality toward strangers.

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What's more inhospitable than rape and murder? :lol:

I think that "Miss Manners" in the Washington Post would agree that raping your guests is inconsiderate. And murdering them is also being a bad host.

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21 Apr 2014, 12:13 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

I think a case can be made that if the angels had arrived as women, the crowd would still have wanted to rape them. The sin of Sodom wasn't homosexuality, but rape and murder.

The Rabbis have argued that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of the lack of hospitality toward strangers.

ruveyn.

What's more inhospitable than rape and murder? :lol: