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BBM and the sin of Sodom
Flashframe777:
But if it were against the law to extend help, then who is to blame?
delalluvia:
Genesis 13:13) "The men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly."
This verse doesn't say what the Sodomites did to make them such exceedingly great sinners, though most bible believers equate "Sodomite" with homosexual. (But see Ezekiel 16:49, which claims the sins of Sodom were pride, gluttony, sloth, greed, and failure to help the poor.)
-Skeptics Annotated Bible
Reason lot of people go for the homosexuality angle, is that later in the story, the bible talks about the lewdness of the town and when people tie that in with the idea that Lot offered his virgin daughters, but the crowd refused them and wanted the men instead...[shrug]
Flashframe777:
Lot offered his virgin daughters, but the crowd refused them and wanted the men instead...
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How many times have I myself been subjected to this very same situation?
Impish:
Interesting, but as I don't believe in "sin" itself, it makes little difference to me how sodomy is defined by the religious.
How our legal code defines it does affect me, you, and everyone living under a given legal code, regardless of our religious beliefs. Legally speaking, sodomy is used to mean "any act of oral or anal copulation," which is seen as a "bad" thing (and that comes from the fact that most of our laws were written by believers in sin).
Fortunately, constitutional challenges to "anti-sodomy" laws have struck down most of them. Every year, the number of times the word is used in the US legal code drops significantly. Yippee! ;D
I believe (hope?) the same trend is occuring for the legal codes of other countries, but many of them never had anti-sodomy laws to begin with. Kudos to them! ;D
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Flashframe777 on May 01, 2006, 07:31:18 pm ---Lot offered his virgin daughters, but the crowd refused them and wanted the men instead...
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How many times have I myself been subjected to this very same situation?
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:D :laugh: :D :laugh: :D :laugh:
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