Why did God divide the people of Babel?

[Greatest I am]

Why did God divide the people of Babel?

I know that most here do not believe this myth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ldI2FJQ_oE

There are usually some moral reason given for God acting against mankind.

I cannot dither out any good moral reason for Babel.

Can you?

Regards
DL

[5thHorseman]

'I know that most here do not believe this MYTH.'

Answered your own question.

'There are usually some moral reason given for God acting against mankind.'

Morals for genocide. Great morals those christians.

I'll stick with my treat others how you expect to be treated.

[ElDinero]

There is none. It's retrofitting, because the authors were too stupid to work out how different languages developed.

[The Grand Nudger]

He didn't /end

[Minimalist]

It's called etiology, Greatest, and it has to do with the idea that people will make up stories to explain the world around them. Religion is full of such nonsense. So someone wondered why people spoke different languages and made up a story explaining it.

Then other morons came along and wrote it into their fucking bible!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiology#Mythology

An etiological myth, or origin myth, is a myth intended to explain the origins of cult practices, natural phenomena, proper names and the like. For example, the name Delphi and its associated deity, Apollon Delphinios, are explained in the Homeric Hymn which tells of how Apollo carried Cretans over the sea in the shape of a dolphin (delphis) to make them his priests.

A better example would be the supposed tale of Sodom and Gomorrah. The ANE is covered with destroyed ancient towns ( it is a highly active seismic zone ) and someone invented a story about two such ruins and claimed that 'god' got pissed at them and wiped them out.

Again, now we have morons out there looking for evidence that it happened!

[Epimethean]

That puts babble where, about the Congo?

[Cinjin]

Another point about the Babel effect:

If the god of israel did indeed change all the languages at the exact same time in the exact same place then there shouldn't be words missing out of a race's language. For instance there are many things/concepts that native americans, asians, native australians, etc, etc, do not have words for that the English and French and others do. This would not be the case. If god changed your language without changing your free will and the way your entire mind worked - every language would have still had words for all things considered ... and they do not.

I asked my father to explain this phenomenon once and of course, being a devout fundamentalist, he could not.

I believe his answer was: "I don't pretend to know the master plan of the one almighty god."

**rolling eyes just remembering that conversation**

[Erinome]

That story shows that if god is real, he's a total fucking dumbass. A smart god would've watched and laughed, since all they were doing was for naught.

Remember also that the same kind of people who wrote the bible were the same that allegedly built the tower of babel. The kind of people who knew nothing at all about the laws of physics, or that there was nothing really up there but the vacuum of space. Why people put any stock in anything the bible has to say is completely beyond me.

[Zen Badger]

Funny how god acted to prevent the tower of babel reaching to heaven yet did nothing when Humanity launched manned craft into space

[Erinome]

impossibly tall tower bad.

spaceship, whatevs.

uhnga.