I’ve been thinking a lot about Sodom and Gomorrah this holiday season, 2024, and going over into 2025. Not just in the usual things, like where they were as cities along the Dead Sea in the time of Abraham. But I’ve been thinking a lot about Lot and his wife and daughters being warned that God was going to destroy the city and that his family needed to leave. Because God couldn’t find one good person to save, he sent a couple of angels to retrieve Lot so he could destroy everyone else. I honestly understand God’s frustrations and anger, and I have been thinking a lot about just pushing the button and erasing the whole thing. I believe that, in my case, I know more than ten people in my life who are worth saving. But I can understand Yahweh’s predicament. I would say I am a very positive person. Extremely positive. I have a personality that can carry risky relationships, so I have allowed in my life people here and there over the years who are very self-destructive in the hopes of pulling them up off the mat and giving them psychological access to a good life. Wealth is measured in many ways, so I consider such an opportunity much better than handing someone millions of dollars. A bankrupt personality will blow through money like hot butter right out of the microwave. So before you can attempt meaningful wealth-building, you must fix what’s wrong with people deep inside themselves. So, my policy for over four decades has always been to give a few wild characters a chance to do the right things and have access to a better life than they would ever get. And to show them the way to a righteous existence.
This year, for whatever reason, I had to associate with a more extensive sampling of people during the Holidays, which was very tiring. I tend to give myself a lot of time to think. I usually read three books a week, but through the Holiday season of 2024, I was having a hard time completing only one because the demands for my time were very intense between family engagements, professional contacts, and random chaos. I saw more people than I cared too, which didn’t allow for a lot of room for me to have the patience to carry out some of the diabolical reform projects that I usually do without them impacting me personally. And while all this was going on, I felt I could hear the voice of God whispering in my ear, “Stop wasting time on these losers. Dump them and free yourself from the shackles of their pathetic existence.” And I kept thinking about the losers who saw the two angels go into Lots house to warn him of what God planned to do. And they gathered around it and demanded that Lot send his guests out into the street so that they could have sex with them and rape them against their will. Lot, trying to be the peacemaker, instead offered to send out his two virgin daughters. But these were homosexual men who gave the name to the process of sodomizing victims because of the debauchery of Sodom, the destroyed city. And they wanted to rape the two beautiful angelic men. There is a lot wrong with all of that, from the mob that wanted to rape the angels to Lot offering his virgin daughters instead. I would never do that. People have asked me what I would do in Lot’s case. Well, I would have made it so that every one of those mob members would never sit at a dinner table again. Sending my daughters to a mob of rapists would never happen under any circumstances. No threat of violence can’t be overcome with superior methods of aggression, to be nice about it.
The people I am referring to just wore me out were people who might otherwise be in the mob that Lot had to defend himself from. If you know the story, the angels, seeing Lot’s predicament, took pity on him and just turned on the mob and blinded them so that they could all escape, which they did and joined Abraham in the desert before God destroyed the place. Along the way, of course, Lot lost his wife because she looked at the destruction. Then Lot was sleeping with his daughters, so there were other problems. But the moral depravity of society, in general, is what we’re talking about here and whether or not members of the mob could have been reformed if only someone had tried to find the good in them. And this hasn’t been a come-lately project for me. I have done this as a policy, trying to help people who are just bad and rotten to their core; I’ve wanted to give them a seat at the table and teach them how to thrive there. But in most cases, if not all, they always let me down. And we’re not talking about a person here or there; we are talking about many hundreds, and in some cases, many thousands. After many interactions with those types of people in my life in 2024, I had to reflect and ask if there was one worth saving or trying. Or were the angels right about everything, and the only way to move forward is to blind everyone and leave them to ultimate destruction, and that we should never do like Lot’s wife, we should never look back, lest we destroy ourselves in the process.
I’ve never felt that trying to help these kinds of people took much away from me that I couldn’t replace with my upbeat personality. And that’s the only reason I haven’t just pushed the button and dropped all those people from it. I get to a point where I move on when people disappoint me. And I try to help someone else, hoping that one or two good people can be found and reformed somewhere along the way. But truthfully, once people are broken, they don’t come back. They stay broken and try to destroy whatever is good around them. And there is no way to help them, no matter how hard you try. I think the tipping point for me occurred during the subway story of the woman who was lit on fire by an illegal immigrant. I was sitting at a table in a nice restaurant with a party of people who were personal projects of mine, some working out well, some not so much so, and I caught that news story on the television over the bar. I looked at the table before me, thinking about all the evil on display, and I realized that the Angels had the right approach. In many cases, the people I was dealing with were already blind; I was trying to help them see. But I decided that night to let them stay blind and stupid and leave them to their misery. And I was going to move on from those people that history has known as the mob outside of Lot’s house. And rather than trying to save them from desiring such depravity, God had the right idea when he planned to wipe them all out. Because there was no way to save them, these were the same malcontents of Ham who laughed at Noah’s nakedness when the other children sought to save their father’s dignity by covering him. There was no way to save such evil. And that is an admission that is sometimes necessary. I certainly understand why God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, and even to this day, nobody knows much about the ancient cities because they were so bad that there wasn’t anything left worth knowing. And that is the same case with most people.
Rich Hoffman
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