Here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. Please let me bring them out that you may ravish them and do to them whatever you wish. But do not commit such an act of folly against this man."Why does this sound so familiar? Oh, yes, someone else tried this a long time before. It happened in a place called Sodom, to angels who were guests of Lot. He made the same offer with less success, but the angels intervened. This time, the guest wasn't an angel, and no intervention occurred.
How far had the people of this town fallen, to be degraded to the same low level as Sodom? What has happened during the time that the Israelites took the land, to where these people now consider this to be acceptable behavior? The story of Sodom would presumably be as well known to them as it is to Christians today. Did they know nothing of God, or nothing more than I do about, say, Baha'i beliefs? Why are the people not being taught, or why are they ignoring the teachings?
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