At 04:49 AM 12/3/96 +0000, you wrote:
>To the question of which exegetical tradition names the sin of the
>Sodomites as inhospitality, I kindly recieved two replies:
On Mysteries of the Bible a TV show of A&E many scholars said the Sin of
Sodom was "Sacred Sex". Many Sodomites took part in the fertility rites of
Canaan, in which a pagan god would be in the priest and then shared thru sex
with all others. In the middle ages most witchcraft rites were seen as
being pagan sexual rites and that is the link found beween the Sin of Sodom
and medieval witchcraft. I think the homosexual acts of the Sodomites were
seen as being done for spiritual reasons not sexual reasons.
Gerard
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