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Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Keeping Us Dumb, Programmed, Nationalism, Evangelicals, Military Complex, Islam, Free Thought, Free Spirit

In Genesis 11 we read the account of the tower of Babel, where the people, attempting to build a tower that reaches to heaven, have their language confused and are scattered across the whole face of the earth by God.
The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
It's not clear to me from the statement above why God decides to do this. Is a tower to heaven somehow a threat (though obviously not a credible one)? A boast? Is it because they don't want to spread out, but God's desire is for them to spread out? Some other reason? What's going on here?

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