| Rant VII Recently I was doing my duty as a good Christian citizen as I watched a little of the global Catholic network to enrich myself while breaking from the stress of my busy day. And as I watched, Lamb Chop accompanied by Shari Lewis and Shari Lewis' hand up the intial's ass told a Bible story. Now this particular story was not only told by a talented ventriloquist, but it also had pictures (I swear it was Flash animation). That story was called The Tower of Babel, and today I am going to pass it along. The Tower of Babel A long, long time ago (in the Holy Land, of course) there lived a group of people. These people were not only happy and proud, but made up the whole of all Earth's civilization at the time. And thus, they all spoke the same language. Now, one day, these people decided that, in their pride for whatever they were proud of, they were going to build a tower. It would be a very tall tower and would be known as the Tower of Babel. So they started building after the intial set-backs of getting that building permit, and buying that plot of land, and so on and so forth. And they built, and they built, and they built... As God looked down on his creations in Babel, he noticed this increasing monument and became angered. God assumed that this prideful tower was made due to the fact that all the inhabitants below thought themselves equal to Heaven. So that day God decided that he would make every person below speak a different language. This would prevent the humans from talking to each other, and thus, continuing directions for the construction of the tower. And boy, how it did. The men below couldn't understand a word another was saying, and thus couldn't do a darn thing (other than drawing pictures, or gesturing, or building the thing themselves, all of which they conveniently forgot) about finishing that tower. The sad men slowly broke away from each other and started their own civilizations. And the languages those men spoke are the languages that people speak all over the world today. ...Then on March 17, 1930 A.D. as the construction of New York City's famous Empire State Building began... |