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Volume IX, \ Spring 1993
Number 2 „ April/May
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to a gang rape to avoid it! Butno one from the 14th Century was present at that
time.
In the ancient Middle East, a desert then as today, the law of hospitality
was not a social convention but a survival imperative. To turn away a traveler
was considered grossly immoral—murder, in fact. As much as food and
shelter, hospitality meant protection. The prevailing ethics of the time obliged
Lot to shelter his guests with his life and those of his family. Besides, Lot’s
visitors were messengers from God.
Sodomites were notorious all right, but as breakers of the law of
hospitality. What they did wrong was no/auxpaxlike drinking from the finger
bowl, but a crime which put them in the category of roadside brigands. For this
evil—and not for any fondness they might have had for sex—the Bible tells us
God destroyed Sodom.
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It is of that very sin these Clayton Countiaris are guilty. They have
sought to interfere with others who wish to grant hospitality—hospice—to
vulnerable people who cannot help themselves. If the scriptures are true, on
the Last Day it will be better to be from Sodom than from a certain part of
Clayton County. ▼
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