Ben Gardner
Sodom and Gomorrah
The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is a classic example of punishment. In the story, there are two towns, Sodom and Gomorrah. The story actually takes place in Sodom, but Gomorrah also gets the punishment. I digress. Abraham has a conversation with God, who is planning to annihilate Sodom, but manages to get God to agree to spare the town if He finds 50 righteous people, at first, and Abraham persuades Him to lower His threshold to 10 people.
To find out if the 10 righteous people exist in Sodom, God sends two angels to investigate. The angels find just a couple-- a man named Lot and his family. Since this doesn't fulfill the requirement, the city is in imminent danger of being destroyed. The angels tell Lot to cut his losses and run, which he does, taking his wife and two daughters with him. As they were climbing up the mountain to get off the plain, the immolation of the city began. Lot's wife looked back, against the recommendation of the angels, and was instantly turned into a pillar of salt. Some time later, his daughters decided to sleep with him, so as to continue the story lineage, both giving birth to future kings.
"Genesis 19." Bartelby's. Bartelby's. Web. 11 Nov. 2014. <http://www.bartleby.com/108/01/19.html>.
Unfair punishment is a part of life, that really can't be avoided. Unfair punishment resulting from false accusations, however, are seriously not cool. I cannot count the number of times I've taken the fall for something that I didn't do, because my idiot brothers REFUSED to own up to their own screw ups. Years ago, someone ate a bag of gummy bears, and planted the empty bag in my room. I still get grief about it. However, as I said, unfair punishment is a part of life, and it serves to get a point across. Or, if you're in a certain few gigantic countries in Eurasia, it serves as a way to make an example of someone/something. Coughrussiacough.
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