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[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Lot offering up his daughters is a commonly misinterpreted part of the story. It was meant to show how far you were obligated to go to protect guests in your house. It has been twisted into 'homosexuality is so bad it's better to allow your daughters to be raped than let anything gay happen.'

Either way it is pretty awful by today's standards, but not exactly the way a lot of people want it to be.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Even that interpretation still leaves the whole "his daughters are just tools he can use to meet his obligations" thing. It's values like this that the old testament was based on.

[-] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Now it makes sense why in Dante’s inferno traitors to their guests are buried further than traitors to their kindred

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