Are the sects of Christianity becoming a metaphor for what the Hebrew God did to those on the Tower of Babel?

Answer 1

Your question intrigued me so i went a searching!!
The reason the Tower
camecrashing down
is more symbolic than
factual i think.
it may of represented
a wake up call to those
who built up too many hopes
based on untruths and deceit
only to see them come crashing
down around them inthe end
Thus the christians of today are making themselves
a metaphorical tower that is bound
to come crashing down around them too!
(((((Oh i hope so!!!!))))
I found this little interesting story in my travels through the net, and thought i would share....
The Tower of Babel

Along with Noah's Ark and several other patently silly stories (in the light of modern understanding), that creationists purport to love, I suspect that they wish they didn't have to defend such myths as the Tower of Babel. Werner Guilford asks the following:
The bible story of why humanity speaks thousands of different languages ranks right up there with the story of Santa Claus and the stork bringing the children. A nice bedtime story for the kids, were it not for the tendency to blame a vengeful deity. Somebody has to set the record straight and absolve God from all responsibility in this case. Let's give it a try.
To start with, we have to make the fairly safe assumption that the Babylonians at that time were not the most stupid people on the face of the Earth. The assumption is safe, since they managed to have an empire, albeit a modest one, had a written language, kept books, etc. So, if they were not stupid, then:

* Why did they want to build a tower and waste a tremendous amount of resources to peek into the living room of a god they didn't even believe in?
* Why would they build a tower in the lowlands when they could get ahead by starting on the top of a mountain a few hundred kilometers north?
* Why try building a huge tower in the lowlands [except perhaps for defensive walls] where every brick had to be made from mud, ?
* Finally, why would any god not just have a tremendous belly laugh at the futility of his subjects? [And why has God not responded similarly to modern skyscrapers--or are we expected to believe that the pile of mud bricks was way higher? And why would God even care, unless He actually did live just a few hundred feet overhead, and a human who reached His home could seriously challenge His supremacy? RJR]

Well, at least we can answer that question. There is absolutely no humor in the Bible (or any other religious text that I know of). It's tough being a god--you are not allowed to laugh.

And Eric Goodemote adds the tag-line:
It's quite odd that the Chinese, in their 8000 year recorded history, failed to mention [the collapse of the tower] in any of their chronicles. Perhaps they were too busy cleaning up after the global flood, which they also forgot to mention.

And Paul C. Anagnostopoulos wants to know: Why aren't all languages spoken everywhere? Why did the people who got Hindi decide to move en masse to India? Cherokee to North America? Why did all the Hebrew speakers stick around the Middle East?

And yet another sacrilegious correspondent asks: How high would such a tower have to be? Could fundamentalists build one? What about satellites, moon shots, and interplanetary missions? Haven't they already gone higher than said tower? Eric Oaktree notes that...
...when the human race dispersed from Babel, there appeared to have been a highly selective dispersion and disappearance of plants and animals used as food. For instance, when the Native Americans supposedly left Babel, they took with them potatoes,corn, tomatoes, tobacco, and turkeys, but they inexplicably left behind useful items such as wheat, horses, cattle, pigs, and olive trees, to name just a few. Other groups leaving Babel acted in the same way. Why?
Furthermore,whatever food plants and animals they took with them mysteriously vanished without a trace from the Middle East! Why? Also,one would think that if a crop such as tobacco, say, was prized enough by Native Americans to take along, it must have been known to other citizens of Babel, and they in turn would have taken it on their travels to their countries, resulting in a worldwide distribution of the crop. Why did they fail to do so? If a creationist has a good explanation for the above, I'd like to hear it.
Anyway interesting as usual Terry!!!
Love and Blessings
Ariel

Answer 2

The descendants of Noah were growing in number and forced them to live in localities more and more distant from their patriarchal homes, "they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands." The work was soon fairly under way; "and they had brick instead of stones, and slime (asphalt) instead of mortar." But God confounded their tongue, so that they did not understand one another's speech, and thus scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.

The tower was a religious icon built to make a name for man. It was a way by which man seeks to share what is rightfully God's alone. This tower was a grandiose structure and was intended to glorify God. But it was not really for His glory instead, it was a way of controlling God, a way of channeling God by using him for man's glory. That is what man's religion has always sought to do.

If we apply this to the idea that the sects of Christianity is a metaphor for what God did to the Tower of Babel then what are we really saying? *ouch!*

Answer 3

Oddly enough..as soon as I read this I thought of the twin towers...hmmmmmmmm...another of my odd feelings.

Answer 4

Oh hohohoho, shame on you. While an EXCELLENT question, you are going to horribly upset the christians when they discover this.

Answer 5

I never thought of it... an excellent question indeed.
Thanks for asking, and I'll have to ask a few friends and see what they think.