cw sexual assault
So the town of Sodom hears that there are two angels at Lot's house, so they go over and say "hey, we want to rape your guests". Then Lot goes "no, rape my daughters instead", to which they respond "no, we want to rape the guests". Then God goes "you know what? I'm barbecuing the city and the one next door, Lot, you and your family leave, but don't look back". Then Lot's wife does look back, so she gets turned into a seasoning.
like... the fuck?
there's some critical scholarship that talks about Sodom/Gommorah's story as less about weird sexual deviancy, but rather their "sin" was their horrible treatment of the poor and the exaltation of the rich. the idea being is that the story changed over time, because politically connected people didn't like that old version and decided to punch it up with a lot of sexual depravity.
i'm not saying i buy it, but there seems to be a whole genre of a religious parables that started out as a cautionary tale warning those in power which became something more palatable to the powerful through institutional translation/interpretation by political forces. so, i don't exactly disbelieve it either.