Sodom and Gomorrah [Archives:2003/690/Opinion]

It is imperative that we should never take the important Biblical stories as merely a form of entertainment, but rather as a learning experience from which to draw upon, as we shape our personal decorum and as we try to set up a decent well bred family, not to mention the importance of establishing the appropriate social order that will prevent social decay. The Holy Quran reveals to us many a nation and people who have decided to take their own course in life and set aside all the Devine efforts to try to set mankind straight on a course that will insure social harmony and cohesion and provide all the needs of the society, economically and socially. In addition, each of these nations had their prophets and messengers, who were sent by the Almighty to help guide these stray nations out of their evil course and onto the path of righteousness. This is revealed clearly in all the Scriptures, Judaic, Christian and Moslem. Yet, even after having seen these nations collapse as a result of some calamity or another brought on by an angry God, who does not take kindly to have his authority questioned, or his Messengers and prophets ridiculed or tortured, it seems that mankind will continue to be prone to live drenched in evil and will even go further than that and go against the natural instinctive traits that God has endowed man with, to quench a preposterously sadistic thirst, which has no real concentric value in terms of providing physical pleasure or satisfying a spiritual inclination. On the contrary such pleasures are the scorn of human behavior and often bring about infectious plagues or physical pain that may linger for many years.
The unusual news that one is receiving from the United States, which is supposedly the most modern societies of our times, strikes a great parody to such Biblical and Quranic stories and may entail that the United States is really getting out of hand with the amount of freedom that peoples should have. While there are many social ills that exist that perhaps are not clearly visible in the social fabric of such a complex urban culture, there are indeed many ills that are clearly out of the question, in terms of spiritual acceptance and surely defy all natural instincts and taste.
A couple of weeks ago, we heard that the State of Massachusetts has for all practical purposes legalized the marriages of couples of the same sex. That such a phenomenon exists without any form of legal contract is already a great abomination in itself, but when the society insists that it is all right and provides a license for it, surely entails that the relevant social order is seeking its own decay and degeneration. This is in total defiance of the ordinances of God, the natural physique of the human build and the safety and health of the society as a whole. Suffice it to say that this represents a total insult to the concept of family and child rearing functions that human beings are entrusted with. This is indeed what Sodom and Gomorrah are all about and it is no wonder that the Almighty in his infinite wisdom deemed it necessary to completely eliminate them in the worst way. He rained upon them with burning stones from hell until nothing is left of them and their remains are no where to be even viewed. Their past is clearly well known to us, though it is only revealed to us in the Scriptures and the Quran, in gross detail, and we have no doubt that they are the truth, as it is God who is relating the tales to us and nothing of human concoction can reach the level of literary finesse as that of the Quran, to permit us to dispute their credibility. It is said that there are around eight million gay people in the United States alone, that is more than the number of population of some thirty individual countries in the world. It is no doubt a frightening number that should be taken into consideration by the policy makers of the United States, who should really be worrying about that than the imaginary WMD of this nation or that nation. In fact that is a WMD within the society itself, which is bound to bring in the wrath of the Al-Mighty and eventually the decay and the degeneration of the United States as a novel and model society.
If that was not enough, we recently have heard of the arrest of Michael Jackson, the well-known musical icon, who has been rocking the world for more than a generation. Artists are known for their overindulgence in abnormal social feasting and activities that sometimes go beyond the acceptable, not to mention the tendency to relish in drugs and other socially destructive mania. However the charge that Michael Jackson was arrested on was indeed a frightening one. That anyone would seek pleasure from an innocent child, if such charges are proven true, really bespeaks a horrible indulgence that will undoubtedly deserve the wrath of God and the displeasure of every decent human being, who enjoyed the artistic output of this talented individual. Yet, this sad development only highlights the unusual trends in the American social fabric that really need to be looked into, if the United States can lend credence to its claim of being a novel and modern society. The observer can only look back on the Biblical and Quranic tales of Sodom and Gomorrah to point out that social behavior is inescapable as a criteria by which God judges men and accordingly arranges their fate.
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