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 helps to conceive of God as a being closer to a transcendental reality/OS than as a person or invisible overlord.
I thought the story of Babel was how arrogance and idolatry of self-worship was the roots of a civilization's own destruction, and from that ruination came different nations and tribes to survive and continue past that point. A lesson, like the story/book of Job, about the reminder of a transient and humble nature of humanity needing to know its limits lest it destroys itself, especially if you pick a fight with the force behind the force of nature. You can modernize this by example people assuming the immortality of humanity in the face of spewing fossil fuels and accelerated climate change. God is saying Know your limits, I think.
Similar to the Cain & Abel story being about how a struggle between the farmer (agricultural civilization) and a shepherd (nomadic civilization) reflected the relationships between city-dwelling farmers and field-dwelling shepherds , where conflict first emerges against fellow humans. (metaphorically, the first disputes with agricultural people and nomadic people)