--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 2/27/06 3:25:09 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Well, it would be rather difficult to provide you > with hard evidence at this juncture. However, as > I've noted, there's excellent historical/cultural > evidence that anal rape was a means of intimidating > and humiliating people; and there's also Ezekiel's > complaint about Sodom, which emphasizes its refusal > to share its wealth with the poor and needy (in > this case, Lot's visitors). > > There's also the unlikelihood that all the males in > the town--including the young ones--suddenly got > horny all at once on that particular evening, and > instead of satisfying their desires with each other, > decided to go after Lot's visitors. > > In other words, the story doesn't make much sense in > your interpretation, whereas it makes perfect sense > in mine. > > Actually I think my interpretation makes much more since. Lot's > guests made no demand for charity from anybody in the city. As a > matter of fact Lot met them at the gate to the city and invited > them to stay in his house for the evening. Why would anybody > object to that?
The people of Sodom were unfriendly to outsiders, not willing to share, not wanting anybody to get any ideas about sponging off them. They obviously were not pleased that Lot had invited them to stay with him. They were mean, nasty, selfish people. > On the other hand, can you imagine if > two gorgeous angels walked into the Castro district of San > Francisco and a bunch of gay biker types saw them and followed > them to the house they went in. Do you think they would hang > around to run them out of town or be in hopes of getting a *date*? You're truly hopeless. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
