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

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It seems as if many ancient peoples were struck by the need to explain the multiplicity of languages.

http://www.varchive.org/itb/confus.htm

This purpose of the builders is found also in an account of this catastrophe which the aborigines of Central America transmitted from generation to generation. Ixtlilxochitl, after narrating the story of the Deluge which brought to a close the first world age, Atonatiuh, and destroyed most of mankind, described the catastrophe which ended the second age or Ehecatonatiuh—"the sun of wind.”

And as men were thereafter multiplying they constructed a very high and strong Zacualli, which means “a very high tower” in order to protect themselves when again the second world should be destroyed. At the crucial moment their languages were changed, and as they did not understand one another, they went into different parts of the world.(3)

There is nothing special about the Middle Eastern variant of the bullshit story.