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And the overflowing chaos of Sodom and Gomorrah is part of the fastest urbanisation in history.
ECONOMIST: Africa's population
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The first myth to be debunked is that Pompeii was a sister city to Sodom and Gommorah.
ECONOMIST: Archaeology
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Zombies can be a substitute for a corrupt government, an oil-based economy, foreigners or even a Sodom and Gomorrah society itself.
CNN: Apocalypse believers' big finish predictions vary
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Yet Sodom and Gomorrah also has a more hopeful story to tell.
ECONOMIST: Africa's population
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They argue that the Koranic authority for this is the story of God's destruction of the city of Sodom because of its citizens' sins.
BBC: Gay-friendly 'mosque' opens in Paris
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But it soon becomes clear that they have a darker mission: to wreak vengeance on two sinful cities, unnamed in the opera but Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible.
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Despite its reputation as the global capital of Mammon, and despite its image in much of America as a modern Sodom and Gomorrah, New York remains a remarkably religious city.
ECONOMIST: New York��s Catholics
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"The advertisement depicts this nation as Sodom and Gomorra and not one that values the institution of marriage and family, " Sheikh Mohammed Khalifa, CIPK's organising secretary, told Kenya's Business Daily newspaper.
BBC: Kenya condom advert pulled after religious complaints
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One could easily imagine the more devout television evangelists rushing to the airwaves with apocalyptic warnings that the District of Columbia had become a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah, and that the president's moral lapses would cause the mighty American eagle to shed all its feathers.
BBC: The first bloke
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The origin of the road's regal name is said to stem back to a league of kings who advanced this way to wage war with the wicked Cities of the Plains -- the Old Testament cities of Sodom and Gomorrah -- which are thought to have lain along the Dead Sea.
BBC: Travelling the slow route to Petra