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The Tower of Babel, and God's insecurity issues?
In the story of the Tower of Babel, God gets all bent out of shape because the people of the world have peacefully united and are beginning to construct a massive tower that will reach to the heavens in monument. God promptly strikes them down and confuses their language (this is supposed to be the story of why everyone doesn't speak the same language) for getting so uppity, and also has the uncomfortable implication that, at the time, it was literally believed that heaven was in the clouds. The thing is, now, we not only have skyscrapers far beyond the height that any contemporary architecture would have allowed, but we routinely fly through the stratosphere, less routinely work in high orbit, and have landed on the moon multiple times. Has God changed his mind about the "no humans above x feet in altitude" thing? Has he gotten over his neuroticism over having his superiority threatened? What gives?
Public Comments
- Satan is now running things
- It's not wise to question anything God does for he is the Giver of Life.
- Well, from what I remember being told about this story is that God was unhappy with men because they weren't building the tower for worship to God... This story is as ridiculous as it sounds... I just find it funny that they had to make up a story to make sense as to why people speak different languages, when it is now obvious that is a consequence of civilizations that live far apart...
- Read the story. One language meant lightning progress in ideas and technology. God's plan had a time-frame, so He had to slow them down a bit. One universal language remained and that was numbers. Our computers and internet have given us back the human equivalent of a one-world language...
- It's an etiological tale, son. You seem to have missed the point. But you knew that, didn't you...
