Reading the Old Testament is like reading Ovid really; stories upon often-dark stories of biblical figures; whose recorded human nature is more disturbing and problematic than today’s youth. I have always wanted to write a piece like this, having spent my childhood years reading the Bible. Where Iain MacWhirter [article The Good Book by Iain MacWhirter on The Sunday Herald] had navigated me to read, i’ve read before and never really found anyone who understands the confusions i had and questions i want answered; when reading the good book. This article i found from the blog Armorous Propensities: Sex is funny, Sex is Sad highlighted the incident of Lot in Sodom and its after-effect:
Lot keeps a house in Sodom, and is visited by two angels seeking refuge. However, a large group of Sodomite men come and besiege Lot’s house demanding to have sexual intercourse with the angels. Lot bars their way and tells them: “Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you and you can do what you like with them” (Genesis 18:20). The Sodomite men aren’t interested in Lot’s virgins, and burst into his house, after which the angels turn them all blind. God tells Lot and his family to flee and not look back. But of course, his wife doesn’t listen and meets her salty end.
Thereafter, Lot hides in the mountains with his two daughters. Bored without male company, they get their father drunk and each has sex with him. Lot’s daughter becomes pregnant with Moab, father of the Moabites and Ben Ammi, father of the Ammonites (Genesis 19:34).
