It is complicated. Given the chance to "Know' Lot's daughters, the crowd saw a cute goat, and followed her.
Somehow they got out, his wife looked back, and was turned to a pillar of salt. Salary comes from salt, as salt was money. Lot's wife went back for the money. She was worth her weight in salt.
Lot flees, but he seems to have brought not only his daughters, but household goods, bedding, food, and lots of wine. This calls for pack animals, besides daughters. Lot was not poor.
Setting up in a cave, without Mom to ruin things, as soon as they unpack, the daughters decide to keep him drunk and take turns. It did not sound like something they had never done before, and Mom's complaint was he did not pay. The rest of the town had paid, why they skipped a freebie, been there, done that, and Mom had the business sense.
The daughters decide to marry their father, have his children, which marrying sisters is Biblical, and taking their Handmaidens to bed.
The story kind of ends. Lot took his wealth to a cave, perhaps to lay low then return. It seems he was not on his way to a new town to offer his daughters to. As his widows his daughters got everything, and I doubt they stayed at the cave. With his wealth, they could buy some really cute handmaidens, and do a group marriage with a really rich man.
Such is the story of the most upright man around, and his daughters, mothers of a Biblical Tribe.
The Lord God looks down upon the town, new born babes, totter's hanging from their mother's skirts, and smites them with fire. He kills everything, including the cute goat.
Mortality being what it was, half of them had not reached puberty. A quarter of those burned to death were under six.
In Egypt he killed everyone's first born child. God had a thing for that young stuff. Killing is a thing, some deserve it, but the pure killing, is of the total innocent and helpless, with fire, slowly.
Now Baal demanded the sacrifice of the first born, and from the Temple at Ras Shamron, comes a book, about Job, who thought he got a bad deal. Baal was just testing him, He gave everything back, but did not remove the suffering, old age, that Job had endured.
Temples of Baal had a bronze oven, with a mouth, babies were slid down the throat which was megaphone shaped, Their families made this offering, and according to how loud and long the child screamed, how pleased the God was with the offering. Many raised the child for a year or two, to make the best offering.
After twenty minutes per pound at two hundred and twenty-five degrees, the priests ate the offering, and put the bones in a jar.
The flood, Noah and the ark, are from Gilgamesh, which had been written down four thousand years before. Baal was almost as old, and The Ten Commandments are from the 125th Chapter of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. About the only thing they have in common is the word, God.
In Gilgamesh it was a people, The Gods. Baal had a brother God who brought storms and rain, and a sister he had sex with, against her will, he kept tricking her, trapping her, and having his way with her. Egypt had lots of Gods, except for one period, short lived, where it was claimed there was only One God. That is just the period when the Old Testament people wander through.
The parting the Red Sea bit would take walking upstream for days, then turning east, climbing a mountain range, and traveling through dry country for days just to reach the Sea. As they wind up in Suez, and there was no canal or anything in the way, and the Pharos tomb and body have been found, it looks like they took the shortest route, and no one was sad to see them leave.
As for Morals and Ethics, I am cool with marrying sisters, and taking their handmaidens as property. Their parents did sell them into slavery, and a deal is a deal.
If my brother should die, his wife should become mine. And her handmaidens. And his goats.
Other parts of Biblical Ethics I doubt.
Some is iffy, Jew, Christians, Islam, all kept slaves. Almost all were their own people. They were willing to sell them to other religions. They all claim a Covenant with God, but do not have one with their own blood.
The slaughter of innocents should be reserved for God. Hiding swords beneath your robes on market day, killing all the adults, taking only the metals and girls who have not laid with a man, there is really no reason to slaughter the rest of the children with the sword.
Using drones to kill innocents in Pakistan, Afghanistan, calling the Missiles "Hell Fire," is taking the name of God, or the Devil, in vain.
Ethically we are close to, "Take off, nuke them from orbit, it is the only way to be sure."
ISIS has horns and cloven hooves, and a tail. The Devil is their leader, If they catch you they will burn you to death in a cage, and film it. The Mystic side of Islam equals Voodoo. Islam does have Black Magic, just like the Jews do. They are African sand people, they may have stolen some local Gods, but they kept their tribal Gods.
They were cutting out hearts and livers and eating them raw on camera years ago.
It is not like they are Nationalist, Communists, that need to be made into a Democracy, they are demons from the deepest pit of hell that Orcs would not put up with. Al Kaida renounced them.
People they capture they kill, this is open genocide.
The west is being called out to fight old style warfare in the desert. Bombing will not work, boots on the ground will be a bloody fight to the finish. ISIS planted this story of the nine year old blue eyed blond Yazidi being raped ten times a day.
13 May 2015, 5:34 pm
