Abstract
Greenspoon talks about the precise meaning of Jesus' words "you are the salt of the earth." Largely ignoring such nuances, writers in the popular press use the expression "salt of the earth" as virtually synonymous with another terrestrial image, "down to earth." Careful reader of London's Daily Mail discover that the actress known as the aristocratic rose Lady Mary Crawley admitted to being a salt-of-the-earth Essex girl." Reference to a "pillar of salt," whether or not explicitly tied to Lot's wife, are a far more varied lot. Perhaps these references results from a common--but imprecise--identification of the sin of Sodomites.