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Here, rape my daughters: Quaint scenes of family values from the Judeo-Christian tradition
By Dr. Shoeshine | August 9, 2008
Sometimes we’re reminded that Christianity had issues long before medieval adventure-hungry young men were offered a trip to the Near East to get off on killing heretics or anyone else who looked rather swarthy; before various Inquisition purges and the campaign against, well, women, basically; before proto-capitalists used Jesus to beat as much labor out of serfs as possible; before actual capitalists did the same; and before the first nutjobs known as Puritans landed on American shores.
In other words, there were problems before culture and institutions made it all worse. Not too far after the nice, if somewhat divergent, creation stories of Genesis (that’s right, stories plural; if that’s surprising, time to go do your homework), is buried that famous little diatribe against homosexuality featuring that early fearer of butt sex: Lot. You may recall that Lot’s wife was the one turned to a pillar of salt when she looked back on the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Okay, well see, that happened after Lot welcomed two angels (who looked, it can be inferred, pretty much human) into his house. Somebody saw this and the sex-crazed men of Sodom came and started beating down the door because they wanted to do it with the angels (it can also be inferred that they did not intend to ask permission). Now I can understand, if one is a God-fearing type, not wanting to have two incidents of angel-rape on one’s hands. What might you have done? I might have asked the angels, being, you know, divine & supernatural, to smite the psycho rapists attempting to beat down the door. Not Lot:
6But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him,
7and said, “Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.
8“Now behold, I have two daughters who have not had relations with man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof.”
(from Bible Gateway.)
The angels then proceed to make all the psycho rapists blind, so you know, their capacity to do such things really isn’t in question here. Which makes me wonder: Why the fuck did Lot offer his daughters as rape-depository alternatives?
I’m starting to think that Lot may have been the earliest dues-paying member of Focus on the Family. Would it be excessively unscholarly to interpret Lot as so magnanimous as to offer his daughters’ “virtue” (eew) as a last-ditch effort to “turn” these psycho rapists’ ravenous appetites back in to a correct and harmonious direction? Perhaps. We’re trying to see if we can find any sermons or other evidence of someone making that argument. At any rate, the legacy of God-fearing men storming into villages and raping the women has lasted a very long time.
For a less snarky, more considered response to that passage from Genesis, you can find interesting apologetics here. And now, back to the millenium at hand.
Topics: "Good vs. Evil", Stranger than Fiction, War, Women |
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