...for sins of the flesh. Gomorrah was destroyed for sins of the mind. We hear tell of raining fire and brimstone, but a more likely explanation - better discounted cashflow/return on investment, friendlier environmental impact - is air burst thermonuclear ablation. Don't look at the fireball or you will turn into a pillar of salt, followed by happy hours of survivors' margaritas. 450 lbs of active materials got you a megatonne yield in the 1950s. We do better now. One presumes Yahweh did better still.
We have MickeyDs and San Francisco as upchecks at both ends of the sodomy column. Political proliferation of disastrously insane ravenously self-destructive "safety net" policies vigorously rewards genetic, developmental, and behavioral trash; reproductive warriors, hind gut fermenters, drug addicts, Enviro-whiner Luddites; the stupid, the pathetic, and the Officially Sad. Being diagnosed with HIV opens a door to unlimited compassion via social engineering - an interminable gluttonous income redistributive free ride for pharma vendors, therapists (the|rapists), and VICTIMS! Contagion containment was designated hate language starting with the very first reported case. Try that with smallpox, cholera, polio, or phen-fen (phentermine + fenfluramine for fat folk). To Hell with the productive. Who are they to demand a share of their productivity?
MickeyDs originally deep fat fried its Freedom Taters in molten suet. Pyrolysis of protein plus starch produces neurotoxic and carcinogenic acrylamide banned to parts-per-billion levels in drinking water and convincingly feared by gel electrophoresis technicians. Though etiology was abundantly in place there was stubbornly lacking epidemiology from millions of teenager-days of ingestion over decades of substance abuse. MickeyDs suffered the loud opprobrium of food faddists stuffing other folks' maws with oat bran and broccoli. It switched from lard to vegetable oils, trading inert saturated fat for athleroscleratogenic trans-fatty acids and allylic oxidation affording mitotic derangement. Canola oil is cardiotoxic, though less so than progenitor rapeseed oil and with socially acceptable advocacy.
We wallow in gomorrahy, too. NASA burned lunatic volumes of tax monies in a Keyhole spy satellite hobbyist version called "Hubble Space Telescope." Hubble was not built properly on several counts including its main mirror. Hubble routinely burns through batteries and steering gyroscopes. This is OK because it was designed to be periodically serviced at preposterous cost by the political nightmare called Space Scuttle. The Space Scuttle charges $30/gram value added for boost into low Earth orbit. Fine gold bulk wholesales for about $15/gram. The Space Scuttle no longer flies because NASA Man in Space is too dangerous, using Russian hardware instead. Right. The $260 million Genesis spacecraft smashed into desert at 200 mph because a $5 thermal battery was defective. The military can supply reliable supersonic parachute ejection technology from ejection seats.
Homeland Severity alone is just and sufficient cause for Yahweh to stub out creation. When there is no order and security - no neutral system of laws, no neutral and real time effective police, no neutral accessible productive system of courts - trade in goods and information atrophies. Communities shrink into small walled self-sufficient clans with meager resources. They become subsistence societies with no surplus time, energy, or personnel for knowledge rediscovery and advancement. The striving middle class is exsanguinated and burned into extinction. Neither the poor nor the rich want the future.
Totalitarian absence of law-mandated security leaves no incentive to engage in long term projects. The chance of bringing them to fruition approaches zero at a whim of the State. The chance of keeping personal gains against State confiscation is zero. Thus, all efforts are expended on satisfaction of immediate needs. One would incredibly then expect business to exist on a quarter-by-quarter basis instead of planning by decades for protracted growth. Individuals would spend money as fast as possible and go deeply into debt with the expectation that yesterday's crushing obligations will be paid with tomorrow's piffling devalued dollar.
Who will push the Big Red Button and deliver America unto a pillar of salt (iodized as per FDA requirements but felonious fortification according to EPA specifications)? Who will topple the wealthiest and most powerful nation in all written and oral histories of our species? Who will extinguish an economy that consumes 40% of everything of value annually produced on Earth? California all by itself is the seventh largest economy on the planet. YOU WILL. Come the first Tuesday of November 2010 walk into your polling place, enter a polling booth, and push a button. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh C'thulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. Usher in the End of Days by sodomy or gommorahy.