Evan Almighty 2: Evan Mightier

[mouradar]

This is a boring post about a theory I’ve had for quite some time now.  Don’t read it.  Go make yourself a sandwich.  Seriously.  I suggest turkey on rye with some Swiss cheese, 

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[superquail]

The Noah story as its written in the Torah also has some really rank bits in it that I wonder about. Like there's this time when Noah gets shit-faced drunk and is sprawled out naked on the ground. His sons know that it is a total sin to look at your dad while he's naked, but they don't want to just leave him lying there. So they come up with this trick where each son holds on to one end of a sheet and they stretch the sheet between them. They then walk backwards towards their father, each son on a different side of the passed out drunk dude. This way they are not looking at him as they cover him with a sheet. And this Homer Simpson-esque drunk is the last decent man left on the entire planet?

[mouradar]

I still think that pales in comparison to Lot. He had sex with his own daughters! On the bad fathers scale, Lot wins by a mile.

[superquail]

Lot wins the bad father award long before he has sex with either of them. Lot lived in the city of Sodom and when God decreed that the city should be destroyed because the people who lived there were a bunch of dicks, Abraham argued with him and said that if there was one good man in the city, he should spare it. Lot was the one good man in Sodom, so God sent down two angels to tell him to take his family get the hell out before the place was torched. People saw two strangers enter Lot's home and they show up at the door saying, "Send those dudes out so we can have anal sex with them against their will" and Lot was all, "Listen guys, these dudes are my guests, I can't just chuck them out in to the street with ya'll. But I have two virgin daughters. I'll send them out and you can do whatever you want to them, just don't harm my guests." But the mob was placated and kept demanding that he bring the guests out

[mouradar]

When I was taking Sex/Text at Whitman, we read this one feminist interpretation of the Sodom story and it claimed that the reason Lot's wife looked back was because earlier passages alluded to her and Lot having other married daughters that they left behind. I always really liked the idea that it was a longing for her lost daughters that made Lot's wife look back. The article was written as a response to the bad idea that Lot's wife's choice to look back was proof of an inherent feminine doubt in God's will. The idea was stupid and it was nice to actually have a class that refuted the idea and gave an alternative explanation.