The Sodom And Gomorrah Story In The Book Of Genesis

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Malum est diffusivum sui or “evil tends to spread” has been proven time after time in scripture, literature and in history itself. The Sodom and Gomorrah story in the book of Genesis proves that evil tends to spread when the entire town attempts to perform an evil act and none of them attempt to stop one another. Group mentality allows each of these individuals to believe that the actions they are involved in are okay. The towns people want to rape the two angels because they are outsiders and in a way they make themselves greater than their targets because they “don’t belong”. Even when Lot begs them not to do their evil deed, the mob makes themselves greater than him by saying he “’came here as an immigrant, and now he dares to give orders!’” (GN 19: 9). …show more content…

Once this act transforms from an individual wrong doing to a mob the punishment becomes immense. The Lord sends the angels to Sodom to destroy it because “the outcry reaching the Lord against the city is so great” (GN 19:13). The individuals that are involved in the mob are all punished equally even if they were just following what the others were doing because they are just as much in the wrong as those leading them. The only people that are saved are Lot and his daughters because he went against the mob and protected the angels even when he was faced with threats from the

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