Well, the Bible says that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of
No, it actually doesn't. That's a Christian gloss on the text. The Jewish tradition is that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because the inhabitants were generally cruel and corrupt. The particular sin of Sodom was being inhospitable to strangers.
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Date: 2010-02-07 09:34 pm (UTC)No, it actually doesn't. That's a Christian gloss on the text. The Jewish tradition is that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because the inhabitants were generally cruel and corrupt. The particular sin of Sodom was being inhospitable to strangers.