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Captn Kidd · 05-17-2006, 10:48 AM

An open minded Jew decides to read the Bible, and blog his thoughts and reactions. The result is comedy gold.

Genesis 19:

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This chapter makes the Jerry Springer Show look like Winnie the Pooh. The Sodom business is worse than I ever imagined. Two male angels visit Lot's house in Sodom. A crowd of men (Sodomites!) gathers outside the house and demands that the two angels be sent out, so the mob can rape them. Lot, whose hospitality is greater than his common sense, offers his virgin daughters to the mob instead. Before any rapes can happen, the mob is blinded by a mysterious flash of light. The angels lead Lot, his wife, and daughters out of the city, and God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah with brimstone. Lot's wife looks back and is turned into a pillar of salt. (God may have listened to Abraham's rebuke, but He surely didn't heed it. What of all the innocent children murdered in Sodom and Gomorrah? What of Lot's innocent wife?)

But the chapter's not over. After the attempted mass gay rape, the father pimping, the urban devastation, uxorious saline murder, it looks like Lot and his daughters are finally safe. They're living alone in a cave in the mountains. But then the two daughters—think of them as Judea's Hilton sisters—complain that cave life is no fun because there aren't enough men around. So, one night they get Lot falling-down drunk and have sex with him. Chapter 19 poses what I would call the Sunday School Problem—as in, how do you teach this in Sunday school? What exactly is the moral lesson here?

http://www.slate.com/id/2141050/?nav=navoa
http://www.slate.com/id/2141712/entry/2141714/
http://www.slate.com/id/2141712/?nav=navoa

Mods, this seemed like a comedy thread, feel free to move it if it fits better elsewhere.

Toto · 05-17-2006, 11:16 AM

This is written with a light tone, but is not really funny, unless you think that the rape and murder in the Hebrew Scriptures are a comedy routine. It replicates many posts in BCH, so it could be moved there, but it's nothing really new or profound.

biitar · 05-17-2006, 11:56 AM

http://www.holybibble.net/index.php?id=99

blastula · 05-17-2006, 02:33 PM

http://www.thebricktestament.com/

Stacey Melissa · 05-19-2006, 01:24 PM

Off to BC&H with this one.

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05-17-2006, 11:16 AM	#2
Toto Contributor Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Los Angeles area Posts: 40,549	This is written with a light tone, but is not really funny, unless you think that the rape and murder in the Hebrew Scriptures are a comedy routine. It replicates many posts in BCH, so it could be moved there, but it's nothing really new or profound.

05-17-2006, 11:56 AM	#3
biitar Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 561	http://www.holybibble.net/index.php?id=99

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blastula Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: USA Posts: 6,070	http://www.thebricktestament.com/

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Stacey Melissa Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Wichita, Kansas, USA Posts: 8,650	Off to BC&H with this one. Stacey Melissa FH Moderator

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