Etemenanki

"Now the whole earth had one language and few words. And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with a top to reach the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.' And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said, 'Behold, they are ONE people, and they have all ONE LANGUAGE; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.' So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.' Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth." (Genesis 11:1-9)

Well, Preacher Scott here, to give my interpretation:
First off, the God of the bible is like James T. Kirk for me, just another Joe, who happens to have some kick ass technology. I will not deny the reality of a 'real' god, but my belief is that none of the Anthropomorphic images we have been taught are what is the Truth.
Zecheria Sitchin set it in motion along with Von Daniken to say, the Gods may have just been astronauts,, after reading alot of the ancient texts I tend to agree that the ancients may have been describing contact with an advanced culture,, not "real'' gods and goddesses.. Having been raised on Star Trek, this was a very easy jump for me philosophically as for many of my generation.. Plus I actually studied and read and reread the Bible. I am still intrigued by it, even though I call myself a Heretic Pagan, I find it fascinating if it really is recording some vestige of historical fact,,,,, however distorted by the Priest, Temples, Mosques and Churches.
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So, my take is this,
Humans united in the plain of Shinar (Iraq, Interesting,, looking for OIL maybe!!)
and said to themselves ,,, after having just came out of a horrific 'God' induced Flood,,
lets not let this shit happen again.
We can get off this planet( I think it possible it represents mankinds attempt then for space flight,, sounds crazy,, just think of the other interpretations)
just as well if we put our resources together and
UNITE as ONE HUMAN RACE WITH ONE LANGUAGE.
For me this is central to the story, mankinds One and Only Time of Unity was Destroyed by the PERSON
who later became a GOD,
of Christians, Jews and those Allah Love 'em Muslims.
He is One and the Same.
Why do you think this is really so, in this story. Why would an accomplishment such as described scare the BeJesus out of good Ol YHVH himself??
I know, blasphemy right. Well I don't think so, my (and Sitchins, plus numberous others in different disiplines) theory that there was a very advanced technological society before our own,,, here in the 21 century.
My only real question is Why was this ONE and ONLY time IN HUMAN history,,, if you believe the Bible,,, Why did this Unity of Mankind frighten the "Deity"??
He said himself that if the goal was accomplished, then it might be too late???? And that then 'they' ( THIS IS US PEOPLE) would be able to DO ANYTHING that they PUT THEIR MINDS TO!!!!!
To big for our britches the deity thought,,, and given our WARLIKE tendancy, if I was hovering over this planet,, watching all the gory wars of humans past (or present) I would be wanting to make sure they didn't get off the Planet to disturb the HEAVENS!!!!
Can't Let these FOOL HUMANS out into the Cosmos!!!
Which brings me to one of my points. If this is the case, I could well understand YHVH demand for a way to avert the Humans from working so closely together, and language is NOW one of the main problems to Understanding our fellow Humans... good little genetic(?? or brain wave transforming??) trick Different languages,, we will never get along after that, right??
Today, we have to worry about this same thing happening. Our leaders at the Pentagon (the dumbass idiot meglomaniacs that they are) are taking steps to ensure that Space has it's full arsenal of weapons !!!!

Good job, you bunch of Monkeys,, Now we are going to have a bunch of pissed off deities, coming back to kick our ass again,,, I assume in that Last Battle all you freaks have been praying for,,,, see Armegeddon?

Oh well just felt the rant today.....and this post is not directed at your 'faith' just what may have been a 'false start' to the beginnings of many religions.......
and Just a Blog Thought,,, that I have thought very often...

Etemenanki Is what the Sumerians themselves called Babel.