Punished for Babel?

[Drich]

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.

Never been project lead on a build before, or you do not understand the skill set it takes to build anything remotely complicated. Try putting a big lego playset together by just pointing and grunting(Dont let anyone else see the box or instructions) and see if what your group builds looks anything like it is supposed to. If you do finish without killing each other it wont be right.

Secondly, we know today that there is no way man could have reached god via a tower.

If you actually read the story it was not about reaching God. It was about man's colliberation and the direction it would take us.

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.

Unless the project was a non-issue and what was being discouraged was the soceitial inferstructure created by man after said tower was built.

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?

It's funny that i do not know anyone of the faith who believes God punished anyone for building a tower. It's only after someone reads anti-God something is that idea ever planted.