folks were working together tryna build a way to heaven and god gets all pissed off that people won't need him anymore and destroys the whole thing and makes sure people can't organize against him by making everybody speak different languages.
folks were working together tryna build a way to heaven and god gets all pissed off that people won't need him anymore and destroys the whole thing and makes sure people can't organize against him by making everybody speak different languages.
It's one myth in a body of mythology. Bodies of mythology don't have to be completely coherent; Genesis was written by several different authors and then revised by many more. The objective pf a myth is more about storytelling, than purely moralism and description. Stories can influence how we think about things, though, so we have to examine them be careful about how we present them.
One alternate explanation for the myth is that the Tower of Babel was a ziggurat, undertaken by adherents of the Sumerian religion.