sonal beliefs of the interpreters and social beliefs of the times they were written.
             Personal biases and societies prejudices have certainly distorted the Bible's many translations. For example: People use the passage about Sodom to condemn homosexuality as a sin because the townsmen wanted to rape two angels visiting Lot. By looking closer, one can see the men were not punished for homosexuality, but for the sins of pride, greed, and worship of false idols of Babylonian and Canaanite gods. Nothing about homosexuality is mentioned-in fact, Lot offered the men his own two daughters, indicating that the men were heterosexuals wanting to inflict punishment in the form of rape upon the angels. In fact, homosexual rape was a common form of punishment when men wanted to prove their dominance or influence in any given situation.
             Also, passages from Leviticus are commonly used to denounce homosexuals even though the word homosexual doesn't appear anywhere. This was actually a code of Holiness used as a ri
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