When the world was new, everyone spoke the same language. One day, in the city of Babel, the people decided to build a tower so high it would take them up to Heaven. God thought: “Hmmm. The people think they can do anything.”
So God taught the people a lesson. He gave them many different languages. Then they couldn’t work together and finish the tower. And that is why people speak many different languages today.
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then what is the moral?
The Tower of Babel fable presents your God as not omniscient but stupid, not as loving, but selfish and cruel; it contradicts earlier biblical stories about the origin of multiple languages, it presents a scenario opposite of what people would do, and it contradicts what everyone knows about languages; i.e. they evolve and are still evolving.
This nonsense story is simply an attempt by bronze age man to explain the different languages – which would have been a real mystery to the ignorant people of the time. It shows that, if there is a God, he isn’t very powerful or very smart.
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the moral is that you should not showcase your pride as it is a deadly sin.