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[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

Explanation: In Biblical mythology, the Tower of Babel was a construction made with the intention of reaching the heavens - which so angered the Jewish God YHWH that he cursed mankind with different languages, so no one could understand each other and construction could not efficiently continue.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Teach a man to build and he’ll ask how high he can go.

Rude move by God on this one.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Christians, and I guess Muslims too, believe in the same myth of the Babel Tower.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

Muslims don't. Or, well, more accurately as with everything else in the Bible it's a neither confirm nor deny position, but Islam has absolutely nothing to say about Babylon.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Christians: "What do you think about our holy text?"

Muslims: "No comment."

[-] don@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago

Being omniscient and familiar with astrophysics (dude did whip up an entire planet and ecosystem in under a week), Y-man knew they were never going to make it past 40k feet let alone the fucking Kármán line, but dude still had a shitfit and crashed out, ostensibly creating (at least the genesis of) the earth’s languages, but more pointedly tried to stop the people from doing what he already knew they’d never be able to accomplish.

Got it.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago
[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

But I must say, he steams a good ham

[-] Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Religions offer a remarkable insight into the people that created them.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Mr. President, a second god has hit the second tower.

[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Why are all 3 comments in different languages? lol

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Hah! Didn't catch that. Cherry on top!

[-] LostMonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Biblical myth about the tower of babel. They tried to build to the heavens and god struck it down then everyone started speaking different languages. I haven't thought about that one in a long time and it's so funny to think that's actually in the Bible.

Edit:Before building the tower everyone spoke the same language

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

If you would've let them cook, it wouldn't matter!!!

[-] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We're cooked

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