Create intelligent beings

>create intelligent beings
>they prosper but fall into corruption due to one of your mischievous servants who you could easily destroy but never do
>instead flood your creation killing nearly everything
>the few who survive rebuild the world
>they prosper greatly under a common tongue and embark on large projects to create jobs
>one such project is a massive tower
>break this tower because muh respect and fuck up their language
>cause endless wars for years to come because everyone is divided now

Why am I supposed to worship this tyrant again?

It's just a metaphor to explain linguistic diversity, it's not meant to be taken literally.

Okay, what is your interpretation?

He didn't break the tower, everyone just stopped working on it after they started speaking different languages.

It's actually pretty interesting. Pressuma ly these people know of god and can feel his presence, but they're not convinced and they try to reach his kingdom without god acting as the gatekeeper.

>it's not meant to be taken literally.

Why would you think that?

god did nothing wrong desu

it's essentially a fable that reminds people not to be selfish whilst also explaining why different languages exist

>not to be selfish

How were they being selfish?

the tower is a vanity project and god humbles them

>people working together to better themselves
>god humbles them

>vanity
>bettering yourself

Are these one and the same to a Christian? And how are either "selfish?"

you guys must really be full fucking plebeian if you really don't "get" the story

small children can instantly grasp the symbolism and yet you're struggling

Summarization of the Old Testament
>This is why this is like this
>Dont eat this
>Solomon did nothing wrong

So you can't explain it?

yes you fucking faggot

>man has forgotten god (hurrr a tower stretching towards the heavens, what can this possibly be a metaphor for)
>god slaps down man as a reminder
>end of story

How is it "forgetting god?" Why does the Christian god not want man to achieve things? Why do you think it's a metaphor?

why does god NEED to be remembered?
the people were cooperating, being good to eachother, finding purpose and what not

but lets fuck all that plunge the world into endless war and all the horrors that come with it instead

God's a self centered jackass

>Why do you think it's a metaphor

because otherwise it's a story about a vengeful and jealous god who mercilessly levels a great and noble human endeavor and as such is unlikely to be included in the canon venerating said god

God being a vengeful and jealous dick is sort of a common theme in the jewish canon

>build a tower to reach him
>forgetting him

But God is everywhere described as vengeful and jealous. And it doesn't make sense for him to metaphorically destroy something "great and noble" either, if that's what were supposed to think of it.

The tower was a product of human hubris. They tried to reach the heavens, a place where only God allows the good to go, by themselves, thus bypassing his authority.

I don't see the problem people have understanding this, it took a quick google search and a few minutes to read the actual excerpt.

So the only thing preventing us from usurping God's will is the fact we speak a variety of languages?

>It's just a metaphor

Sums up modern christianty

>and as such is unlikely to be included in the canon venerating said god

Then again, didn't the dude require some guy to kill his son for him before stopping him at the end?
God has always been described as a butthurt egoistical tyrant, it's just that people didn't really care until recently
The "loving god" meme is very recent, before that it was pretty much like islam, you had to fear God, not to expect love from him

>because muh respect
Talmudist detected.

They weren't building that tower for funssies. They were doing it because fuck you God were better than you

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The devil is a way for christians to explain why people do evil things since neurochemistry was alien to their minds at that time, they believed that a being called the Devil who constantly defies God thus is obviously evil uses things called demons to leak some form of energy that makes you do evil and wicked things, thus humans that commited lots of evil were not seen as psychopaths but possessed by demonic spirits.

Energy that makes you do evil is the human explanation for doing bad things in general, since why on earth would a piece of flesh be related to evil dont be absurd now.

>2016 CE
>taking bronze age myths literally

I think it is cool that there are different languages, if we have a problem with it we have to do something about learning the languages.

God flooded the Earth in order to save creation; the same with destroying the Tower of Babel. Man's wickedness and giants tyranny were in the times of Noah, and the people building the Tower were trying to build it to the heavens, which usually offends God in any religion.

Babel means "Gate of GOD" so we can understand that today, we can use different languages after the destruction of the tower in order to learn more about God.

Plz be satire

Tell that to all these tards who still believe in judaism, christianty and islam

The story never existed you fucking retard because something as large as Babel would tell have some remains in the Canaan area.

>Babel
>In Canaan

oh wow

I'm pretty sure the story existed.

The story exists, it was written very long ago. No one knows the exact location, "Shinar" was somewhere in Mesopotamia and or Iraq

he's still more benevolent than all the other gods

Christianity is a metaphor.

I'm gonna fap now.