Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha

So one day, God appeared in front of Abraham's tent in the form of three men. Abraham welcomed the men and offered his hospitality, preparing a meal for them. These guys tell Abraham that his wife, Sarah, is going to have a son, after already having gone through menopause. She knows she is too old to have a child and laughs from inside the tent, having been eavesdropping on this conversation the whole time. God calls her out on it, not directly, but towards Abraham, and she says from the tent that she had not been eavesdropping, proving her to have been eavesdropping the whole time (I'm not really sure why this detail is included). S the men were leaving, they tell Abraham the cities Sodom and Gomorrha are filled with sinners, their outcries are very loud. He says he is going to check it out and if things are as bad as they seem, he will destroy the cities and all its inhabitants. Abraham begins his bargaining with God by asking a fair question: will he destroy the righteous right along with the wicked? Even if there are only fifty good and righteous people in the city won't it be unfair to destroy them all? He says God is the '"judge of all the earth," so doesn't that mean he should act upon them with justice? God agrees and says he will spare the cities if there were at least fifty righteous people there, then 45, and he got all the way down to ten righteous people before stopping his questioning. The story then picks up at the gates of Sodom where two of his messengers/angels arrived at its gaits where Lot met them, showing them hospitality just as Abraham showed the three men. They come to find that the rest of the city isn't as kind, as they demand he give them up to them so they can rape the foreigners. He says no, but was willing to offer his two virgin daughters instead, just no men. Lot isn't as lucky as Abraham was with these crazed townspeople, and they deny this offer. Now they are threatening to rape him as well as the two men, after all Lot is just as much a foreigner two these people as God's messengers were. The messengers/angels pull him inside and blind these men, leaving them incapable of finding the front door. They tell Lot to grab his family and get the out of there because all hell is about to break loose (figuratively speaking). He takes his wife and two daughters and run for a nearby town. When they got to the town, the Lord rained "brimstone and fire" on Sodom and Gomorrah. He and his family were warned not to look back when all this was going to happen, but his wife did. She turned into some salt. Why not? The morning following this, Abraham went to the spot where he had said goodbye to the man and they warned him of the fate of the cities and saw the smoking rubble that remained of the cities. There weren't even ten righteous people, but God still sparred Lot and his family, remembering what Abraham had told him about not making the innocent suffer alongside the guilty.

Unfair punishment isn't really that strong of a factor in my life now, but when I was younger it showed up all the time. Like if my brother threw a fit, neither of us would get to watch TV, or if I started a fight both of us got sent to timeout or the corner or something like that. This could have been some sort of parenting technique, or just complete lack in the understanding of fair punishment or good parenting because singling out one of us is just too hard, and punishing the one who needs it just makes too much sense. It doesn't really affect my life directly any more though, not to say it doesn't exist all together.