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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (90)	7/25/2000 9:22:12 AM
From: donjuan_demarco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Man, that is really perverse. No wonder some of the Christian sects are so weird ..

To: Solon who wrote (90)	7/25/2000 12:28:38 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Respond to of 28931

No doubt the wine they were drinking was neither Burgundy, Bordeaux, nor Tuscan. I think they would have been better off with some third rate tequila. Small wonder they are nuts.

To: Solon who wrote (90)	7/26/2000 1:24:05 AM
From: Druss	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Solon--Lot was practicing 'Desert Hospitality' when he offered his virgin daughters to the crowd of perverts. In the Bible at this point he is being held as a very up standing man to do this. Lot had two guests (Angels of God, if memory serves). Offering his daughters instead of the two strangers to the crowd was part of an ancient tradition in the desert of protecting guests at all costs. Lot was bound to protect them at any price to himself including his daughters. This leaves out the question of why if Lot had done so well to protect his guests that the gesture was not enough. God with a couple of angels on the scene should have had enough firepower to blind the crowd for a little while, or at least lower their hormone level. The pregnancy of Lots daughters by him however kind of falls in the 'Big No No' category of behavior. That one has never been condoned. I would suggest Joseph Campbell's Occidental Mythology as an excellent source for seeing the Bible as very typical mythic body of work. Druss