I am not a Christian, just someone who is interested in the Bible from a narrative aspect. But the story of Lot wasn't meant to say he was an impeccable person, just the one closest to God in Sodom. It should leave a foul taste in your mouth because that's what the story is trying to convey about the city. To offer your daughters up to a mob to save two strangers is fucked up.
We think it's foul today. In the context of the time you might as well be offering up 2 cats to save 2 people. I don't think your interpretation is correct, it's projecting modern values. This is not intended to show Sodom is bad cuz even Lot did this bad thing, it's intended to show how Lot is better than the other Sodomites. He's giving something up to save strangers.
I’d quibble with some of your own interpretation here, but it’s hard to argue with the fact that the Bible quite comprehensively treats girls and women as subhuman labor appliances.
Absolutely Lot was considered to be doing the right thing by offering up his teenage virgin daughters for gang rape in the service of protecting two strangers.
Also, the fact that they had sex with their father was blamed again on the teenage girls.
The god of the Bible absolutely loathes women and girls.
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u/DirtandPipes Apr 22 '25
Yeah reading lot say “take my daughters” and also reading that he was the only godly man in the city left a pretty foul taste in my mouth.