article_snippet.sent: When I started this project, my brother texted me, "Wait until you get to Lot.
article_snippet.sent: I am horrified by the story of Lot in Genesis.
article_snippet.sent: Lot and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was new to me.
article_snippet.sent: Lot is the central character in the grim story of Sodom and Gomorrah and Gomorrah's demise in Chapter 19.
article_snippet.sent: To protect the emissaries from the mob, Lot offers up his virginal daughters.
article_snippet.sent: Oh, and while Lot's chosen family members flee the destruction, Lot's wife turns around and is turned to salt.
article_snippet.sent: Lot's wife had been warned not to look back.
article_snippet.sent: After God destroys Sodom, Lot's daughters worry that there aren't any men left, so Lot's daughters get Lot's daughters father good and drunk and have sex with their father.
article_snippet.sent: Lot's daughters need to have children to keep the human race going, the logic goes, I guess.
article_snippet.sent: The Lot story struck me -- hard.