Christians are Jewish spiritually, page-117

Mr Gordon, once again you mix a gram of truth in a cauldron of supposition.

This story is not about towers or who existed and who did not. This is about a single humanity working together to build a tower of stone to heaven that so incensed God that He infused people with mixed foreign languages already developed and then scattered people all around the world in their various language groups. So no people existed in the rest of the world back then and they were all a beautiful Middle Eastern brown of skin. They turned black when they got to Africa and white in Scandinavia with blue eyes. This story is set at about 600 BCE. Surely you can see that its all utterly impossible to have been a literal story.

You don't have a problem with this as a literal story?

There may have been a Nimrod character. Rulers tend to be egomaniacs and in those ages highly inbreed. The Egyptian leaders had deformations of their bodies because they married their sisters. No doubt the same deal here, so whomever Nimrod was he was also likely insane.

They may have tried to build a puddle of rocks but the main body of this story is so very unworthy of any sensible educated adult having the temerity to believe it is a literal tale. This is not even as good as the Aboriginal myths of how the turtle got his shell and the robin his red breast.

When people tell the story of King Canute ordering the tide to not come in they use this to illustrate the power of God over man. What they fail to realise is that this is exactly what King Canute was doing. By showing his people that the tide would not obey him he was showing them that he was a mere human just like them and God was all powerful.

This Babble story might be similar. Today it is a moral tale gone wrong for certain groups.

The pyramid is 146 metres tall, not even a hill. The Great Ziggurat of Babylon was 91 metres. Burj Khalifa today is 830 metres tall. How is it that this building didn't incense God?

No matter how authoritatively you write this up it just makes Christianity a laughing stock to claim such stories as literal.