I recently finished reading Robert Heinlein's sci-fi masterpiece Stranger in a Strange Land, which I highly recommend, despite its rampant misinterpretation by a legion of patchouli-smeared free-love demagogues. At one point in the book, a character goes on a little rant about all the fucked up stuff in the Bible (of which there is no shortage), and eventually gets to the story of Lot.
I was vaguely familiar with this story from Sunday school...Lot lives in Sodom (or is it Gomorrah), God smites the city, his wife gets turned into a pillar of salt, etc. etc.
So Lot and his two daughters go to live in a cave, and, well, they start to get some...shall we say, "ants in their pants:" "And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth." (Gen: 19:31)
What to do? Well, the genius solution that these two slatterns hit upon is to...get their father drunk and fuck him. Which they each do on consecutive nights. Pretty gross, huh? The kind of thing that you'd think Christians would rather just not bring up, right? Because God...pretty much condones this nasty incestual date-rape.
Well, you'd be wrong. Turns out depictions of Lot and his horny daughters are rife in the canon of Western art. Thanks to the wags at the Skeptics Annotated Bible, I stumbled upon this delightful image:
Go on...give it a click for a closer look. Now...picture 17th century Dutch painter Hendrick Goltzius laboring for hours, trying to capture the perfect expression of drunken, incestual, old-man lechery on that motherfucker's face.
Good show, Goltzius. Good show, God; Lot. And good show, Lot's daughters. I sure hope your kids had only ten fingers.
Update: I used the epithet "motherfucker," without really thinking of the context. If you think about it, that motherfucker is flanked by two...fatherfuckers.
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