As a christian, how did you handle the problems with the Tower of Babel?

[xpastor]

As with so many of the bible stories, from Genesis onward, the Babel Incident bears all the hallmarks of primitive man trying to speculate about their world. "Why are there people who speak other languages? What if..." and a myth is born. It takes a few thousand years of spin and a special type of mindset to take that seemingly innocent speculation and turn it into a real historical event.

Right on. When I started off as a liberal Christian, I accepted the assessment of liberal theologians and took the Babel story for exactly what it is: a just so story to explain the manifold languages in the world, and I never thought of it again, so I didn't worry about whether it had really happened.

Total fundamentalists got no sense of literary genre. I suspect the original author wrote the bit about the talking donkey as fable like Aesop rather than history. Ditto for the science fiction of the Jonah story.