Thursday, November 13, 2008

An Encore of Incest

Gen 19 31-36


And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.  And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:  Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.  And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.  And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.  And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.  Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. 


God condones incest.  Twice.


The Genesis god's Moral Record

1. Imposition of unconscionable pain on innocent women in childbirth

2. Drowning of innumerable men, women, children, animals, and their young by choice

3. Dispersion and confusion of innocent Men by forcing upon them different languages to inhibit them from achieving peaceful social, economic, technological advancement

4. Sending plagues upon innocent Egyptians for Abram's deceit

5. Requiring the slaughter of innocent animals for mere sacrificial rite

6. Requiring the mutilation of infant genitalia

7. Endorsing slavery

8. Condoning Lot's offering of the rape of his daughters to a mob

9. Condoning incest

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