Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Genesis 19

Just when you think this book cannot get any freakier, it does just that. Welcome to Chapter 19.

Two angels visit Sodom and Lot invites them over for dinner. The male townsfolk show up and demand the guests be handed over to be raped. I guess these Sodomites really are wicked assholes after all. Lot is determined to protect his guests so he offers up his own daughters for the raping.  And Lot is the good guy in town. He claims his daughters are virgins but we learn later in the chapter they are married, not that this detail makes the story any better or worse. Anyway, the suggestion ticks off the Sodomites who storm the house. The angels help Lot slip back inside and strike all the would-be rapists blind.

The angels escort Lot, his wife and two daughters out of town. Run away, and don't look back! God then gets down to business destroying the entire Jordanian valley, including Sodom and Gomorrah. Classic old testament hellfire and brimstone. Lot's wife looks back at the burning city. Big mistake. She immediately turns into a pillar of salt (what?!). Hey, you were warned, babe. But Lot -- who presents his daughters to would-be rapists -- escapes safely. Clearly he's done nothing so terrible as look back over his shoulder.

Lot and his daughters end up in a nice cave in Zoar. The daughters want their dad's name to live on, and who wouldn't want to preserve the bloodline of a wonderful dad who offered you up to be raped. So they did the only logical thing and got him drunk and took turns fucking him. Did it ever occur to you he might get married again? Maybe show him how to use eharmony.com.

OK, so both daughters have sons, making Lot a dad and grandpa to the same kids.

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