Talk:Solomon/@comment-98.214.161.96-20160704034612/@comment-95.178.170.215-20161030161544

Sodom and Gomorrah had this lovely tendency to sodomize every visitor that came around.

Yeah, raping guys for funsies was their pastime.

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.”

Lot offered his daughters (fun guy, that Lot) and they refused because they were having a bad day and decided that raping a guy was the activity that would make them happy. The angels Lot had as his guests did not take well to the idea of Sodom existing and, well…

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.” Also, it was Lot who was in the house at the time. Abraham only came around after: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. <span class="text Gen-19-26" id="en-NIV-484" style="box-sizing:border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;">But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;font-weight:normal;"><span class="text Gen-19-27" id="en-NIV-485" style="box-sizing:border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;">Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the <span class="small-caps" style="box-sizing:border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps;">Lord. <span class="text Gen-19-28" id="en-NIV-486" style="box-sizing:border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;">He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;font-weight:normal;"><span class="text Gen-19-29" id="en-NIV-487" style="box-sizing:border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;">So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/hombibg192.htm

http://www.catholic.com/tracts/bible-translations-guide

Worth keeping in mind when something makes you go “What the crock shit is this?” May or may not also be caused by cultural dissonance.