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The jewish teaching of this is a little different. See, in Sodom, they were wealthy and only wanted to associate with the wealthy. Poverty was criminalized, and charity doubly so— and by criminalized, I mean that beggars and charity seekers were to be systematically punished with ritualized gang rape before being cast out of the walls.
So, like you said, some angels come to visit Lot, and he invites them into his home and gives them a meal. The neighborhood gets wind of this, realizing that his guests are not foreign CEOs come to make a business deal but rather some dudes without money that are getting some sweet charity— “stealing” from the city’s prosperity. Lot comes out and is like, don’t you dare touch these guys, take my family instead, and the crowd is like, “no way, you guys are loaded and help make our city rich. Give us these fucking poors so we can humiliate them and run ‘em out of town, we have no desire to run you (and your money) out of town. Step aside!”
Bit of a different take, with a bit of a different message. Now, what were the angels there for?
Well, god was talkig to Abraham and saying, “hey, Sodom is a such a blight on the landscape for their sheer greed that I’m going to wipe it off the face of the earth” and Abraham is like, “hey, there’s gotta be SOME good people there, right? Like at least ten?” And god said if they could find ten good people left in the city it wouldn’t be destroyed. So the angels show up, and basically the entire city is there on the doorstep trying to legally gang rape them for the crime of not being rich. So the city gets nuked.