My Continued Wrongness

Recently I have been reading about the cities of Sodom and Gommorah, which biblically actually reffers to 5 or 6 cities located in a particular region of the Nile Valley. Apparently these cities where incredibly wealthy, it is unclear why, but most likely because of the valuable salt trade.

In Sodom the people were so rich and corrupted that they actually had laws to prevent poor people from enetering the town or living in their community. They had a common area in the center of the city where people traveling through could sleep for a night, but when it was dark there were laws so that any citizen of Sodom could come and do whatever they wanted with anyone staying in the Common Area. Basically they could rape them, enslave them, kill them, rob them, whatever. There were no laws against anything when it came to people that weren't in the community.

Now when Abraham and Lot break off Lot is well accepted in Sodom because of his great well and status. So he starts living there, later 2 angels come get pissed after the towns people try to rape them, and destroy everything with Fire and Brimstone. Anyways, now this is where I am wrong, a while ago I had said that I thought American Culture had become one of the most corrupt cultures of all time. As it turns out I was way wrong. Americans generally stand up for people who are weak or need help. In general I feel like the people of America have compassion and are willing to do something when confronted with injustice. Yes I still think we get a lot wrong and in some part of our culture virtually every imaginable sin is happening, but there are still a lot of people who are faithful. God would not destroy Sodom if only ten where found to be righteous in the city. As Andy Stanely would say, "a little bit of salt goes a long way towards perserving a society."

Matthew 5:13 is where Jesus calls us the salt of the earth. We are the preservative of the whole planet. We just have to make sure we don't lose our saltiness...