Writings in the Old Testament serve as a backdrop for the events in both Sodom and Gomorrah and the film Raiders of the Lost Ark. At the end of Raiders, the Ark shoots fire at the Nazis, which is similar to the fire and brimstone that God rained down upon Sodom and Gomorrah. Another similarity is that God liked to punish by blinding his failed creations. Before striking down upon Sodom and Gomorrah, God blinds its inhabitants. By comparison, when the Nazis open the crate to find the Ark, fire flew into a Nazi’s eyes, who acted as a conduit: the fire started to shoot from his eyes into others two-by-two. Undeniably, the most obvious similarity between the story of Sodom and Gomorrah and the scene towards the end of Raiders is the concept
