article_snippet.sent: I actually hadn't put two and two together that Sodom and Gomorrah is the origin of the word sodomy.
article_snippet.sent: "intimacies," we are meant to understand, account for Sodom's wickedness.
article_snippet.sent: ("Intimacies" is the term used in my 1991 edition of the New American Bible.
article_snippet.sent: my 1991 edition of the New American Bible refers to "sexual relations.")
article_snippet.sent: There apparently aren't enough good men to save Sodom, which leads to God destroying yet another population in Genesis.
article_snippet.sent: After reading that section, I put the New American Bible the New American Bible down.
article_snippet.sent: Then I read the New American Bible again.
article_snippet.sent: What are the morals, the meaning, I'm supposed to get from these ghastly stories?
article_snippet.sent: It could be that it was a tale told to make sure that people only had sex to have children.
article_snippet.sent: Or it could be a morality tale for the times.