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The tower of babel
September 7, 2015 at 7:34 pm
Given god you know destroyed the tower separating humanity in that story it makes you wonder why.
Thinking it over it hit me god is afraid of humans and what they can achieve that being said god in the bible is not immortal but a mortal asshole with powers.
So yeah that's about it.
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RE: The tower of babel
September 7, 2015 at 7:36 pm
He pretty much says as much in the story. This was before the idea that Yahweh was this omnipotent creator god. Yahweh is against people coming together as one species, because there's nothing we can't do when we work together.
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RE: The tower of babel
September 7, 2015 at 8:04 pm
Having tribes/societies striving and competing against each other is good. I'm not crediting bible scribes with getting one right however.
And as for explaining the existence of all the languages, the Babel story is ludicrous.
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RE: The tower of babel
September 7, 2015 at 9:54 pm
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RE: The tower of babel
September 7, 2015 at 11:51 pm
I don't know. If the Abrahamic God of the bible was afraid of humans, he'd have killed them. That was sort of his thing, wasn't it? Flooding the earth, killing people because their king took a census, pretty much killing was his go to. In this one instance he decides "I'll just divide up their languages," instead of slaughtering them all again (maybe he met his quota?)
I imagine when Moses was writing the old Testament (assuming he did) people kept asking him questions. An Atheists of the time probably asked, "Well why are there different languages Moses? I mean we're all descended from Noah, so we should all speak one language." And Moses decided to come up with whatever he could to explain it away. Perhaps borrowing from other myths he had heard.
"Yeah," said Moses. "God did it. People were building a tower to the heavens, and God decided to give us all different languages."
"That's your answer to everything isn't it," asked the Atheist. "God did it. I could write this story.. geez..."
And thus was born the idea to stone non-believers.
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RE: The tower of babel
September 8, 2015 at 11:38 am
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Ja, exactement este är der Punkt de cette storia!
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
