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05-02-2003, 06:11 PM
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The Tower of Babel, I guess, is supposed to be some class of a ziggurat . But the story gets everything backwards probably to damn any way of worship but it's own. Ziggurats don't threaten heaven, they provide a means by which the gods of heaven might descend to receive the worship of their slaves on Earth.
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05-02-2003, 07:05 PM
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If I may play Elohim's advocate, the Tower of Babel story could also be read as a parable about humility. Whether a god exists or not, it is a truth of the human condition that despite our great intellects and advanced technology things don't always work out the way we think they will. As a certain true Scotsman said, "The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft awry."
Parts of the Bible really aren't bad if you approach them as literature instead of The Word of God™. |
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