Does anyone believe in the tower of babel story?

Question

You know, the religious explanation for why people speak different languages. Honestly, that is the most childish explanation for why we speak different languages. It sounds like it should be in a Dr. Seuss book. Thats just my opinion though.

Answer 1

Yeah it could also fit right in with the story about the woman that lives in a shoe, humpty dumpty sat on a wall, or even Jack jumped over a candle stick. It is pretty ridiculous, but people will believe anything that their religion tells them to. They are all completely brainwashed and there is not a thing that you can do, except PRAY. Pray that they discover reality and stop PRAYING to a make believe God.

Answer 2

Well, even if it wasn't true, which I believe it to be, the basic story must be. If all humankind evolved from the single-celled organisms that crawled out of the primordial ooze created by the cooling of the matter from which the earth was created, then it would stand to reason that all of humankind would have spoken the same language at some point. Not that speech was the first thing humans developed, but it stands to reason that two humans would have learned to speak and then languages evolved in the same way they do now, due to the need for inter-language communication. Tribes of early humans would have spread out and perhaps lost contact with one another, thus the pure language would have diluted until the two dialects sounded and worked nothing like one another.

I don't believe this to be what happened, but whether you believe God or evolutionists, the fact remains that man must have, at one point, had a single common language.

Answer 3

I'm with you. The idea that this god would actually think that a tower could be built that could reach it shows not only stupidity on the part of that god (where was it that a tower could reach it?), but fear of the people building the tower, as well. In any event, the people wouldn't have had to speak the same language to continue a job that was well under way. The whole thing is silly beyond words.

It's a good example of how primitive humans saw things, but I think that someone would have to be incredibly gullible to believe such a silly story today.

Answer 4

Man, I had to walk away a couple times before even trying to answer this question. There are so many facets to the story, so lets get a shovel and start digging.
First to answer your question specifically, no I don't believe it for a second. I'm not a super-christian, but it says somewhere in the bible that "God brings all good things to life, and ADDETH NO SORROW." God is spirit and I don't think ever has intentionally brought "punishment" to this planet. So in my opinion, God didn't sabotage the languages
of the people building the tower, didn't bring the flood,
didn't turn Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, didn't decieve Eve into biting the apple, so consequently didn't punish her and Adam by throwing them out of the Garden, and giving her painful pregnancies to boot. There would have to be something sociopathic in that kind of a trickster, vengeful God. I believe the continents split up and drifted apart,science pretty much shows that, and without globalcommunications of any kind ,people just settled into speaking any way they could to be understood, thus the differences. One thing about science...logic often proves the point. The bible and much of religion was designed to enslave us, by attacking our self-esteem, as unworthy ,
forever guilty slaves to God and the church. Without that kind of spiritual slavery there wouldn't be $550 million dollars
on hand to settle sex abuse cases out of court (today's news).
None of this actually addresses the Tower of Babel story...but I'm typed out. Modern day tradgic similarities can be seen however in the Kenneth Lay and other corrupt CEO's, all simultaneously building their extravagant castles,
trying to get their "heaven on earth" by plundering innocent peoples life savings and pensions.
Tower of Babel is about people trying to second guess God's will,.and thinking they have a special privelaged
connection to heaven..Not all, but a WHOLE LOT OF Christians ought to take a hard look at that. Peace, brotha.

Answer 5

It is a campfire story. It is simply part of the stories that are an introduction. They are not supposed to taken as a part of history. The historical part of scripture begins with Abraham and Sarah. The first stories are stories of faith meant to show an attribute of God or of humanity. In this case, it is a story of humanity - that we are diverse. We are not all the same and we should celebrate those differences not worry that we are not all the same. It also shows the creativity of God. With these and a few others in the old testament, we cannot look at the literally. They weren't mean to be taken as such.

Answer 6

Sure. They actually built it high enough to reach the moon before it collapsed. They didn't know about orbital motion, so the tower's spire poked a bunch of holes in the moon's surface before it was torn apart by gravitational tidal forces. With a cheap telescope, you can still see all the holes it poked. What's not to believe? The proof is right there. You just have to be willing to seek, and ye shall find. Yoink.

Answer 7

I believe there could have been a Tower of Babel. Many mythical stories have real underpinnings (for a long time, no one believed Troy was a real city, until its remains were discovered). The whole language thing is silly on the face of it, though.

Answer 8

the tower of babel is a phallic symbol
it happened in what is now iraq
the world trade towers are our new version
the tallest building symbolizes who has the power
who is in charge
the middle east is the womb of the earth
oil is the blood

Answer 9

There are lots of easy ways to prove the bibledegook is wrong (contrary to what some claim here it is trivial).

But the funny ones like this are the best.

Answer 10

Like most of the Bible stories, I don't think that it is fact.

I like my own version of the Tower story. An earthquake hit, so the tower fell. People fell off or got hit in the head by chunks of building and were mumbling nonsense due to all the head trauma. :)