I appreciate this animation, but most of the verses in the bible give me incredible pause - this being one of them.
Besides the Sadam rulers sacrificing babies, I see no point in the reason why the whole city would be destroyed. You're telling me that in a city of thousands that only one man was "righteous" enough?
Not to mention why god would turn Lot's wife into a pillar of salt for looking back? Surely massive pillars of fire raining from the heavens would be an eye turning event? Maybe she turned back to make sure that they were actually safe? There would be no reason to turn her into salt since she didn't really partake in sacrificing babies...
I love the animation though but I'm not a personal fan of the bible...
Response to Author:
Thanks for taking the time to respond to me, glad that I got context from the background and a sample of the environment of Sadam. If that's the case then I see that the destruction of Sadam was justified then... maybe... but couldn't God or one of the Angels come down and visit Sadam to convert the citizens?
Sending Angels disguised as men for a clandestine extraction operation doesn't really give the people of Sadam the chance to "repent" so to speak when they're all reduced to ashes.
Anyway, onto the wife turning into a pillar of salt, you're saying that bearing witness to the fires of heaven and looking at them causes a human to turn into salt? Just what happens when a human does so? I mean, I'd expect her eyes to go blind due to the brightness of the explosions; this is what happens when looking directly at a Nuclear weapon going off but I wouldn't really say that a human would literally turn into salt unless that's done on purpose? If God were an all-poweful being would he not compel her to not look at the flames?
I also question just how righteous Lot is when he'd rather have his own children be raped rather than mere random strangers that could potentially be just as bad as the men in the city? The Angels did come disguised as humans so he wouldn't really know their origin.
I also fail to see how a city of this terrible nature can possibly exist in the first place considering that the men were so ready to do terrible things to the newcomers - terrible things that they've likely done to themselves? The amount of vengeance and hatred within this peculiar society would leave mountains of corpses. Perhaps in a decade or so the city would've destroyed itself by internal collapse or warfare from neighboring territories?