New study finds atheists/agnostics "the most knowledgeable" about religion.

[IceSage]

Never really knew the story behind the tower of babel, so thanks for that video.

So humans worked together...god didn't like it, so (somehow) magically scattered them all around the world (nice metaphor for how religion causes division ) because he felt threatened by them building a tower into heaven (but we know heaven isn't literally in the clouds). Religious folk, are we meant to take this story literally or is it just a metaphor for god being a spiteful dick?

To be fair, you need to understand the "moral" of the story as well. But yeah, that's pretty much how it went, only God didn't scatter people around, he basically made it so that nobody could understand each other. So, you and your best friend could be speaking fine one moment, and then after God got mad, he'd be speaking Spanish, and you'd be like, "Uh... what?" and he'd be like, "Que?" Thus, if you can't understand what each other is saying, you can't work well together.

Also, God got mad not because they were simply building a tower, but because humanity is never suppose to do something, or make a monument in their name. They're suppose to do things for God, at all times, in his name. When they built the tower, they were doing it because it was gonna be, well... an AWESOME TOWER that reached the heavens! (And they also wanted to attempt to reach "Heaven" and meet God, is another interpretation.)

But basically, yeah, to sum it up, God didn't like it, so he made your friend Peter into Pablo.