Have you ever noticed the story of the tower of Babel in Genesis 11, and how everyone spoke one language, and how the god of the bible worried that they would eventually build a tower that would reach all the way up to heaven, where he lives? No? Really, I'm serious, it's in Genesis 11, read it for yourselves.
I'm guessing the guy that wrote this one, allegedly Moses (as if!), either didn't remember that he also wrote the following verses just one chapter before--actually, I think someone else wrote the Babel story and didn't bother checking, or wasn't acquainted with what we now know as chapter 10:
Genesis 10
05 From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.
05 From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.
20 These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
31 These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.
Now go over to the faerie story about the tower of Babel and read the following:
Genesis 11
1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
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Wait a minute! I thought every clan had their own language?!?!
when did they all start speaking one language?
"And the LORD came down"??? Isn't he supposed to be omnipresent?
Why would they be "dispersed over the face of the whole earth"
if they didn't make a name for themselves? How does that follow? With a leap like that, the author should be working for Nike.
Genesis 11
6And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.” 8 So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
Not only are we asked to believe this infantile story about people building a tower that could reach to heaven--even their god believed they could--but we're also suppose to believe that people who spoke several different languages (chapter 10 above) suddenly were of "one language" and had the "same words". WTF?!?!
Seriously, how can an intelligent person be asked to believe such a cornball story happened literally? An omniscient god thought that primitives could build a tower to reach heaven... REALLY??? Moses must've been smoking some good shit when he wrote that one. ;-)
Anyone who hasn't lost the ability to think critically can see through this obvious myth; can see that it was written by someone who was totally ignorant of what the "heavens" were; totally ignorant about how impossibly high that tower would have to be. Not only that, but their god believed the same thing they did!
How can any thinking person take this book and its deity seriously? No, really!!! How can one read this story without laughing out loud... or spilling a tear or two over the folks who believe it happened as written?
The Bible is chock-a-block with such nonsense and any thinking person can see that there was no omniscient deity behind any of the words of the ridiculous stories told in this book. Isn't it time we all acknowledge this and placed this book in the mythology section at the local library? Isn't it time that we did the same with the Qur'an and other such books? We know the Iliad is mythology, but many still believe that the stories in the bible are true, as written. Books like the bible belong to the childhood of man, not in an age where science has shown us so many wonderful things about our universe.
grgaud
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