Yes, and they all know God's rule about being separate. After all, The Tower of Babal is in the Bible they read as well. It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to be followed.
Does religion promote racism?
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Yes, and they all know God's rule about being separate. After all, The Tower of Babal is in the Bible they read as well. It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to be followed.
I've never heard about the Tower of Babel's connection to race. Whats the origin of that connection? Anyway, Jesus was an Arab Jew, which makes the xenophobia of antisemitic/racist Christians very hilarious to me.
Omigawd sand niggers :runaway: Jesus H Christ, have they ever looked at Jesus properly?
All the people were working together to create a tower to reach God. He didn't like this. He then made them all speak different languages. They could no longer communicate with each other so they couldn't build the tower together.
They quit and went home. God was happy.
They quit and went home. God was happy.
Jesus only looks like a jew if you're jewish. My personal savior has blue eyes and a .50 caliber.
If the dinosaurs were still around, their jesus would probably look like this:
The whole idea of a personal savior is that he's personal- he looks like you and likes the same things you do. That's why Jesus is always throat punching fags, bombing other countries, and using the church as a tax shelter.
So. Is. Islam.
The Native American peoples did just that, the Chinese diid it, the tribes in Africa did it, the eskimos did it I can go on but you get the point.
This.
AFAIK, there are few religions in the world, and no major ones, that actually promote racism. The closest thing that comes to it are ethnic, tribal religions that place an emphasis on ethnicity as a part of participation in said religion. But even so, they're not truly racist in the proper sense of the word.
This is in the Bible?
The story is found in Genesis 11:1-9 (King James Version) as follows:
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children built. 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Sounds like there is some translation issue. There is a similar verse in the Quran, sans Babble towers
There is another one in a different verse:
Yes. Genesis 11:1-9. Everyone wanted to stay together, but God want them to spread out and inhabit the Earth. They started building a city and temple and God saw that they were proud and wanted to be stronger together and show what they could do without God.
Yani, anti-tribalism. That makes more sense.
LOL, how interesting. That's not what I was taught. They were trying to reach God. Wanna fight about it.
Yes, there is a pretty major translation problem with this chapter. We would have to turn to theologists to get what the heck was really being portrayed. Most theologians say there is implication that they were trying to show up God, in a nutshell.
Thats part of the problem. Best would be to look at the source directly.
I've never heard about the Tower of Babel's connection to race. Whats the origin of that connection? Anyway, Jesus was an Arab Jew, which makes the xenophobia of antisemitic/racist Christians very hilarious to me.
Omigawd sand niggers :runaway: Jesus H Christ, have they ever looked at Jesus properly?
You would not believe how many people think Jesus was christian. It's so ironic.