Punished for Babel?

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The story is rather simplistic and clearly redolent of man knowing nothing of reason or the god in which he professed faith.

People were punished for attempting to build a tower to god. God's punishment was to alter their language so that they all spoke something different and thus could not complete the tower for being incapable of communicating with each other.

First of all, not much communication other than pointing needs to be done in order to construct an architecture.

Secondly, we know today that there is no way man could have reached god via a tower. Thus, god obviously knowing this, there was absolutely no reason to punish them for attempting something they could not accomplish had they even finished the project.



Even space exploration could not procure evidence of such a deity who was so afraid of man trying to find him other than through blind faith.

Is there any real purpose of the story other than to display man's ignorance of god when he wrote the bible, especially when he claimed to be divinely inspired by the very being about which he was writing?