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*** The sin of Sodom was basically that the people refused to respect the angels who were visited. Thus, [[Sacred Hospitality|Sodomy is really being rude to guests]], not anything to do with sex per se. Yes the crowd wanted the angels to rape them, but they wanted to demonstrate dominance over the visitors, and refused Lot's daughters when he offered them to the crowd instead.

*** It's accepted by most due to word choices in translation that the crowd wanted to rape the angels. However, the bible states that the crowd wished "to know" the visitors. Sodom at the time had recently recovered from a war where most of it's male population had been [[You Keep Using That Word/Less Pedantic|decimated]] (this takes place earlier in the bible). Additionally, Sodom is a remote settlement making the people logically suspicious of outsiders (why would you come here and are you spies from our enemies come to finish us off?). It is very likely that the bible meant literally the mob wanted to interrogate the visitors. "To know" is used numerous times throughout the bible and is very seldom used as a euphemism for sex making translations forcing the issue very suspect possibly done to show the hedonistic pagans the translators' moral compass. It should be noted that it is was "accepted" form of humiliating your opponents during this time period by gang raping them (not sure when it wouldn't be humiliating but it apparently happened more often in old testament times than more recently). Later it is said that the town was destroyed because of numerous sins including the abuse/neglect of the old and young (likely war orphans) as well as other vague sins. The point of the story seems to be two-fold: [[Sacred Hospitality]], and an inside joke/rationalization for the Jewish people at the time because at the conclusion of the story Lot's daughters got him drunk and had conceived him two sons that fathered two tribes that were later conquered by the Jews (your tribes were born of incest therefore it's okay that we killed you off in totality). It's also believed the two towns, Sodom and Gomorrah (these were not the only towns destroyed in this act of righteous rage perpetrated by God, just the only two mentioned by name and Sodom was the only one where the scene was shown because of the presence of Lot), were named posthumously. The etymology of Sodom may be the Hebrew word for burned and Gomorrah may be the Hebrew word for ruins.

* '''[Word]oholic''' is frequently misused to describe how you are addicted to [word] (such as being a self-proclaimed rageoholic if you are addicted to rage). If you are a rageoholic, you are addicted to '''[[Psycho Serum|rageohol]]''', not rage.

** Homer Simpson actually uses this correctly, exclaiming "I'm a Rageoholic! I just can't live without rageohol!", in the episode [[The Simpsons (animation)|"I am Furious (Yellow)"]].

* '''Electricity''' refers only to a "quantity of electricity", that is, an electric charge. It does not refer to anything which can take the adjective "electric", such as electromagnetic radiation (which is what most people mean when they say "electricity") electric energy, or [[They Just Didn't Care|electronics]]. It has gotten to the point where physicists no longer use the term "electricity" in scientific publications, because the colloquial usage is ambiguous. (Though they still use "electric" and "electrical" as adjectives.)

* '''Chauvinism''' originally meant extreme patriotism and nationalism, and the belief in one nation's superiority over others. It has since evolved to mean a belief in the superiority of a specific group of people (not necessarily a nation) over other groups. One example of such is male chauvinism, which is probably the most common meaning today. The term is also often confused with '''sexism''', which is prejudice and discrimination based on sex and the belief in traditional gender roles.

 

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