Readings:
Genesis 18:16 - 19:38
Matthew 6:25 - 7:14
Psalm 8: 1-9
Proverbs 2: 6-15
Genesis reading: Much of the discussion around this famous story about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah goes either around Abraham's pleading with God to spare the cities from destruction even if only ten righteous people can be found there, or around homosexuality being the alleged reafor the two cities' destruction.
However, if one reads the account carefully, the sex contemplated amounted to gang rape. For that matter, Lot's own hands cannot be considered clean when one considers that he was ready to sacrifice his virgin daughters to be subjected to such abuse, rather than to violate the tenets of hospitality. Reading further, the account of the same two daughters subsequently conspiring to get Lot drunk in order to be impregnated by him speakes volumes for the generally-unGodly values prevalent in the two cities, and even in Lot's own household.
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