The Story of Lot and his family is quite a confusing tale to the Geminian .

Lot was visited by angel(s) in Sodom or Gomorrah , where in he offered his virgin daughters after he was accosted by citizens who wanted to KNOW his guest(s) i.e. the Angel(s.)

Apparently he was able to fend off the molesters long enough to find out God was about to wipe out his city of bad people for doing bad things. (Not unlike Nineveh .)

For being such a devoted servant and apparently good guy, God warns Lot to get out with his family and don't look back, as to avoid becoming a pillar of salt. Upon exiting the city the wife was turned to salt for checking out the devastation.

Later the three remaining family members, in a cave, get drunk and have sex, some how mistaking the Angel's word "city" for the WHOLE WORLD. So the incest was justified in order to repopulate the earth starting right away in the cave, and of course somehow it was the virgin daughters doing.
So lets start with the angel's visit: Why would any man, in any context, offer his virgin daughters up for sex with people he obviously protected those daughters from since they were born? In addition, how is it that Lot could believe that God's Angels needed his protection in the form of his daughter's virginity?

Next, the incest: Now if your mother just died and everyone you knew went up in a ball of fire and you were in a cave, would you get drunk and seduce your father? As a virgin would you know how to seduce your father? Mother didn't make it but somehow the alcohol did.

Next the Fiery spectacle : If Lot's wife died for looking at the city being destroyed, how do we get the descriptive depiction of the of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ? (i.e. fire from the sky, smoke coming up like a kiln.)

Lastly, the entire story: If everyone in Sodom and Gomorrah were killed, then Lot's wife. Who was the one to tell the whole story, the only possible storytellers left are Lot and his not so virgin daughters.

The story of Lot, by Lot.

In summary, I accept that the possibility of these two cities existing, and also that they were destroyed, most likely by less than supernatural forces. But I believe that bewildered desert dwellers needed to explain destruction on such a scale in those days, and religious zealots used the destruction to manipulate the moral decisions of others.

I consider this myth busted. Lot never existed, a good moral man would never offer his virgin daughters for sex, or have sex with them, even when drunk. The entire story hinges on the testimony of the main character who is an immoral non-mourning, child molester , who talks to angels, and never ever forgets the wine.