"Flee for your lives! Don't look back, and don't stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!"
Genesis 19:17
The bible is such a unique source of history and life lessons. One of my favorites is the story of Lot. Lot and his family narrowly escape before God destroys the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, but not before offering his daughters to placate a screaming mob of sodomites. Luckily the mob is made blind and Lot's family escapes un-sodomized, but along the way Lot's wife disobeys God, looks back at the now burning cities, and is turned into a pillar of salt. Fully understanding the severity of the situation, Lot and his two daughters climb the hills overlooking their old homeland to seek safety (see bottom photo). They find a nice cave (see middle photo). Things are going well until the daughters decide they need to continue their bloodlines. They get their father drunk (each on a separate night) and have "relations" with him (see top photo). The plan is successful and each daughter becomes pregnant. I visited the cave yesterday and it really got me thinking about the moral to this story. The best I have is this: "If you offer your daughters to an angry mob of sodomites, don't be surprised if you wake up one day with a wife as a condiment and a pair of grandsons that bear an uncanny resemblance to yourself."
Is salt really a condiment?
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