The Tower of Babel: A Tawdry Tale of Divine Bullshit

Confused and Conquered: A Bewildered Mass of Pious Fools, Spurned by a God of Wrath?

Every time atheists listen to silly, credulous biblical stories of cataclysmic epics and ugly tales, we tend to wonder why mature, grown-up adults of the 21st story would actually buy into such deluded drivel, written by uneducated dessert mules of a long-forgotten era.

From the catastrophic global floods of Noah's bullshit tale to the exodus of Jews into the wilderness of the desserts, these supposedly historical and archaeological events have been asserted as truth, and are even cited as God's "convent" to his beloved Creation; i.e us.

One of my least favorite (also the least violent of the biblical XXX stories) tales from the biblical crypt is the tale of The Tower of Babel, long cited by the pious to explain the myriad of languages and dialects that have proliferated the planet.

From the Annals of Genesis

Before we begin to understand the absurdity of such a tawdry, stupid tale, it would be prudent for us to examine what the good book of Gawd has to say with regards to this rather insipid tale of linguistic confusion:

Genesis 11:1-9 :

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 builded.

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 (confusion); 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.

Holy Gawd's of Almighty! Here we have a bunch of folks, presumably the remnants of only survivors of the human species, trying to settle down and irk a living.

Alas, these worldly folks get all too comfy for their own good. In their haste to grovel and prostrate before their deity, they had desired to build a tower stretching to the high heavens, as a sort of gratitude for Gawd's good grace. A pity, though, God doesn't like intruders in his heavenly domain when he's taking a siesta (gee, we know he needs to rest on the Sabbath. Cut it out, ye noisy humans!).

Suppose these folks didn't have the benefit of the pneumatic drill, these hardworking folks would have required a hell of an effort to construct this huge monument for Gawk, and all the chipping and mess must have disturbed our Invisible Sky God to no end.

So what does Gawd do? Like an old-fashioned despot and tyrant, he mixes their languages, rendering communication impossible, and cast them out of the land! Hey, at least he didn't smite them with lightning or some other highly creative means of torture and death, like he is usually wont to do! Be grateful and stop making a din, ye noisy humans!

If this story is to be held authentic, one can hardly begin to grasp the sheer narrow-mindedness of this Judaic-Christian God: Not only did he not appreciate the degree of piousness and thoughtfulness of such a beautiful monument, he even chose to "punish" them for their audacity.

The Tower of Babel: Historical Bullshit?

This absurd tale has often been cited as an explanation for the existence of many dialects and languages, and what is interesting is that the tale of the tower's subsequent destruction was not written in Genesis, but in the Book of Jubilees (not in the Biblical Canon), which really is a testimony to the sheer numbers of purported "words of God" being scripted or written by these ancient charlatans.

Given that the earliest records of Jewry was approximately 1200 B.C. Confirmed by the archaeological find of The Merneptah Stele (also known as the Israel Stele or Victory Stele) originally erected by the Ancient Egyptian king Amenhotep III, we can draw the assumption that if such an incident had been witnessed, then one would assume that this incident would have taken place some 3,200-3600 years ago (Add 400 years for margin of error).

Which means, modern languages would have been a singular entity before this time. Assuming this was true, consider the following:

Sumerian tablet, 3,100-2,900 B.C

1. The Sumerians, a distinctly non-Semitic people, were already settling down in southern Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) since 5429 BC, and their Sumerian language had already existed at that time. [1]

The existence of this civilization would have easily debunked the Creationist's myth of a 6000 year old planet (for they would have been around 7000 years back), and evidence suggests that the Sumerians were conquering tribes, meaning to say their language could well be derived from other cultures too!

2. The Xia Dynasty, the earliest Chinese dynasty to have attempted the unification of China (otherwise known as the Middle Kingdom), ruled arbitrarily from 2070 BC–1600 BC,as described in the Records of the Grand Historian and unofficial Bamboo Annals, lasting some seventeen kings over fourteen generations 431 to 471 years. That would predate the existence of the Xia dynasty way before the Jews had even acquired their racial identity.

If such glorious, ancient civilizations, each with their own customs and languages, took place long before the first Torah was ever scribed, how does one begin to account for such a historically fraudulent story???

Invading God's Territory? Man and Hist Erstwhile Technology

Unfortunately for the good Gawd, in today's world of technology, Man is slowly infringing upon Gawd's private airspace.

Gawd hates Aircrafts???

We have herculean skyscrapers towering and pushing ever higher into the skies. Jet planes of all shapes of sizes, flying at supersonic speeds, create such deafening noises that would have put God out of his nap even on Sabbath days, and we are not even done yet.

We have Hubble Telescopes and all manner of military and commercial satellites in space, and enough probes to scour planets for rocks and signs of life.

In fact, one could safely speculate that Man has intruded into what was once God's sacred territory. And if he's going to get mad with one stupid Tower, then my presumption is that he ought to inflict worst physical punishments than mere speech confusion.

Such tales from the biblical crypt serve as a reminder to us that old scriptures of these nature are generally mere religious hogwash: They come from a pious era when anything that is remotely attached to higher learning was deemed as a blasphemy and a challenge to the powerful presence of a patriarchal God.

To regard such biblical nonsense as Gospel Truth is the equivalent of talking about the virtues of a flat Earth. It is high time that humans, as a rational, level-headed species, reject such infantile, servile beliefs and consign them to the annals of our history books.


[1]John Nicholas Postgate (1994). Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History. Routledge (UK).

Murder With The Stamp of God: Alleged Homosexual Killed In Cold Blood - Who's Next?

Very often, our Christian brethren, buoyed somewhat by the slew of barbaric, atrocious spat of beheading foreign workers and soldiers by their more "stoic" Taliban and Al-Qaeda counterparts, have found cause to heap Islam as a "religion of evil", without realizing or acknowledging the fact that Christianity is just as blood-thirsty and deluded as the religion of the Arabs.

The spate of anti-homosexual campaigns, based largely on some ominous, blood-curdling verses in the obnoxious bible, makes it crystal clear as with regards to the state and final solution to the ignominious fate of homosexuals:

"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." -Leviticus 20:13

"For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet." - Romans 1:26-27

Naturally, one assumes that, as pious, godly Christians, it is their supreme duty to "do away" with such reprobates, evil doers of the most obnoxious kind. And that was exactly what this godly, divinely-inspired man-of-god did, in the good old-fashioned way: Murder.

Excerpts (In Blue):
July 15, 2007, 12:34AM
Murder suspect says he was doing God's work
By PAIGE HEWITT
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle

Cypress man is being held in the June death of flight attendant

A Cypress man charged in the death of a Southwest Airlines flight attendant said Saturday that he was doing God's work when he went to a Montrose-area bar last month, hunting for a gay man to kill.

"I believe I'm Elijah, called by God to be a prophet," said 26-year-old Terry Mark Mangum, charged with murder June 11. " ... I believe with all my heart that I was doing the right thing."

Interviewed in the Brazoria County Jail Saturday morning, Mangum said he feels no remorse for killing 46-year-old Kenneth Cummings Jr., whom relatives described as a "loving" son who never forgot a holiday and a devoted uncle who had set up college funds for his niece and nephew. He worked at Southwest for 24 years.

Mangum, who described himself as "definitely not a homosexual," said God called on him to "carry out a code of retribution" by killing a gay man because "sexual perversion" is the "worst sin."

Mangum believed Cummings to be gay.

"I planned on sending him to hell," he said.

It is all god-damned sickening, my dear readers. Here is a man who is a veritable contributor to society, holds a pretty decent job as a flight attendant, an extremely charitable man who even manages to set up education funds for a niece and a nephew, and for all the world of good he did, he was, in the eyes of this fucking stupid son-of-a-bitch Christian killer (For ye Christian folks who are going to use your "oh he is not a true Christian" pretense, I am not about to let you fuckers get away with this: fuck you!), a man who deserved to be knifed to death with a 6-inch blade and dumped in a shallow grave. Not even a marking on his grave! Nothing deserving for a great, loving guy who has committed a crime of.........er.....let's see.........nothing!

Oh yes, it was a great job this Mangum did. He certainly didn't feel remorseful, that's for sure. Ironically, but surely, he felt love: deep, passionate love, but pity it wasn't really for the flight attendant he had so cold-heartedly murdered and dumped carelessly in a shallow grave (he felt so cool about it, he didn't even bother to dig a deeper grave, for fucking Jesus' sake!!!).

"It's not that I'm a bad dude," he said, expressing concern that people might view him as "strange." Pausing briefly, he said, "I love God."

What an extremely loving and passionate God! Obviously, Mangum's been reading too much of the psychotically-inspired "Word of Gawd". Otherwise, how could he have impersonated Elijah, with his fire-brand hatred and all against gays? And the best thing yet: The bible justifies his actions by explaining very explicitly that those vile creatures who gave in to their lust had to be justified with only one outcome: Death.

How inspiring. I wonder what those bible-thumping fools of the Lord who preach their anti-gay antics teach their folks these days. Sure, they can even "moderate" their preachings to suit secular opinion, but hey, the bible is very succinct with its stand on gays: Their lives are automatically "forfeited".

Who's Next on The List???

One of the genuinely sublime features of the good old Word of Gawd is that, when blood and murder are on the cards, very few stones are usually left unturned.

If you belong to these categories of folks, you might just want to watch your back: You might be next on the religious hit list:

Top Ten List of Must-Kills, as Mandated by the Good Book:

1. Witches
You should not let a sorceress live. (Exodus 22:17)

2. Homosexuals
"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13 )

3. Fortunetellers
A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death. (Leviticus 20:27)

4. Adulterers
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10)

5. Fornicators
A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 )

6. Nonbelievers (Inclusive of those who do not believe in Christianity)
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 )

7. False Prophets
If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, "You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord." When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through. (Zechariah 13:3 )

8. Female non-Virgins on Wedding Nights (I think that includes virgin asses too.)
But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21 )

9. Death for Blasphemy
One day a man who had an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father got into a fight with one of the Israelite men. During the fight, this son of an Israelite woman blasphemed the LORD's name. So the man was brought to Moses for judgment. His mother's name was Shelomith. She was the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan. They put the man in custody until the LORD's will in the matter should become clear. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and tell all those who heard him to lay their hands on his head. Then let the entire community stone him to death. Say to the people of Israel: Those who blaspheme God will suffer the consequences of their guilt and be punished. Anyone who blasphemes the LORD's name must be stoned to death by the whole community of Israel. Any Israelite or foreigner among you who blasphemes the LORD's name will surely die. (Leviticus 24:10-16)

10. Sons of Sinners
Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants. (Isaiah 14:21)

Makes one feel warm and fuzzy all over, doesn't it?

Creationism: Islam Joins In the Fray

In the Beginning......

When one speaks of Creationism and its Trojan horse, Intelligent Design, he or she is reminded of fundamentalists from the Christian and Catholic creeds, all clamoring for their ersewhile, 7-day Creation bullshit, as based on the Old Testament canon, to be taught in secular public schools alongside Evolution.

Now, it seems that another more violent-prone monotheistic religion is jumping into the muddled waters of pseudoscience.

Creationism, From an Islamic Point of View

Money, in seems, is the driving force behind the latest Creationism fad, funded by an eccentric Muslim who wants to persuade the intellectuals amongst the scientific community to buy into their brand of Islamofascist Creationism.

Excerpts (In Blue) from

Islamic Creationist and a Book Sent Round the World

by Cornelia Dean

In the United States, opposition to the teaching of evolution in public schools has largely been fueled by the religious right, particularly Protestant fundamentalism.

Now another voice is entering the debate, in dramatic fashion.

It is the voice of Adnan Oktar of Turkey, who, under the name Harun Yahya, has produced numerous books, videos and DVDs on science and faith, in particular what he calls the "deceit" inherent in the theory of evolution. One of his books, "Atlas of Creation," is turning up, unsolicited, in mailboxes of scientists around the country and members of Congress, and at science museums in places like Queens and Bemidji, Minn.

Atlas of Creation. Weighty Stuff, Good for Impressing your Girlfriends and Wives

At 11 x 17 inches and 12 pounds, with a bright red cover and almost 800 glossy pages, most of them lavishly illustrated, "Atlas of Creation" is probably the largest and most beautiful creationist challenge yet to Darwin's theory, which Mr. Yahya calls a feeble and perverted ideology contradicted by the Koran.

In bowing to Scripture, Mr. Yahya resembles some fundamentalist creationists in the United States. But he is not among those who assert that Earth is only a few thousand years old. The principal argument of "Atlas of Creation," advanced in page after page of stunning photographs of fossil plants, insects and animals, is that creatures living today are just like creatures that lived in the fossil past. Ergo, Mr. Yahya writes, evolution must be impossible, illusory, a lie, a deception or "a theory in crisis."

In fact, there is no credible scientific challenge to the theory of evolution as an explanation for the complexity and diversity of life on earth.

The book caused a stir earlier this year when a French translation materialized at high schools, universities and museums in France. Until then, creationist literature was relatively rare in France, according to Armand de Ricqles, a professor of historical biology and evolutionism at the College de France. Scientists spoke out against the book, he said in an e-mail message, and "thanks to the highly centralized public school system in France, it was possible to organize that the books sent to lycées would not be made available to children."

While some proponents of Christian Creationism have no problems with acknowledging microevolution, this peculiar Islamic Creationist book, titled "Atlas of Creation", rejects evolution wholesale. Evolution, it seems, is no more than an outrageous lie, devised than an infidel without equal, Charles Darwin.

No Expenses Spared On Packaging Trash

While scientists were unimpressed with the contents of what is typically another lame attempt at lampooning Science, scientists could not help but marvel at the lavishness and costs of sending such a beautifully bound book:

Kenneth R. Miller, a biologist at Brown University, said he and his colleagues in the life sciences had all received copies. When he called friends at the University of Colorado and the University of Chicago, they had the books too, he said. Scientists at Brigham Young University, the University of Connecticut, the University of Georgia and others have also received them.

"I think he must have sent it to every full professor in the medical school," said Kathryn L. Calame, a microbiologist at the Columbia University medical school who received a copy. "The genetics department, the biochem department, micro — everybody I talked to had it."

While they said they were unimpressed with the book's content, recipients marveled at its apparent cost. "If you went into a bookstore and saw a book like this, it would be at least $100," said Dr. Miller, an author of conventional biology texts. "The production costs alone are astronomical. We are talking millions of dollars."

A Hidden Agenda?

While we can all marvel at the costs of propagating an agenda that has long been dominated by the Christian sector, one wonders what Mr Yahya has in mind.

Quite apparent is the obvious fact that he is targeting an uniquely intellectual audience, but really, how many, if any, of these "kafirs" or infidels does he really wish to convert with his half-baked bullshit?

Could this be the beginning of Islamofascism's foray into the educational sector? With the Christians already fishing in muddied waters, trying to sneak in religion and blending it with science classes, now Science has to contend with another Creationist nonsense from the Muslim community:

"My hypothesis is, like all creationists, they believe that they have a startling truth that the public has been shielded from, and that if they present the facts, in quotation marks, that the scales will fall from the eyes and the charade of evolution will be revealed," said Eugenie Scott, director of the National Center for Science Education, which fights the teaching of creationism in public schools. "These people are really serious about this." That may be, Dr. Miller said, but it's also possible "that Harun Yahya and his people have decided that there are plenty of Muslim people in the United States who need to hear this message." In his e-mail message, Dr. de Ricqles said some worried that the book was directed at the Muslim population of France as a strategy to "destabilize" poor, predominantly immigrant suburbs "where a large population of youngsters of Moslem faith would be an ideal target for propaganda."

This indeed does not bode well for secular education, especially in the States, which already has its hands full dealing with Christian zealots lobbying to have their religion being taught in schools as Science. In any case, most would cringe at the idea of marrying secular education with Islam: What are the students going to be learning? Making bombs?

Incoming!!!

-"Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain." -Richard Dawkins

Atheism: The Emancipation Of The Human Spirit

More often than not, the philosophical stance of atheism is often juxtaposed with visions of gloom and doom: Given that the word "Atheist" is originated from the Greek word, Atheos: a, which means, 'without', & theos, meaning 'god', atheism's position as a default position of non-belief does sound a bit discomforting, especially for fence-sitting atheists and agnostics who may find little or no solace in what seems on the surface to be a huge emotional void.

Theists often muse over this quaint little attitude of atheists: Wouldn't the disbelief or non-belief in an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent God be a rather despondent ideal, given that we live in a world that is essentially full of uncertainties? There is so much that we have failed to comprehend, that wouldn't it be a better preposition to seek the solace of a deity, real or otherwise, than be in a precarious position of non-belief, which seems bereft of any hope and meaning with regards to our very own evanescent existence?



The Theistic World View


For the purpose of discussion, I shall stick to monotheism as a representative of Theism and its adherent, Religion.

The theistic disposition is simple: This life that we cling onto is a spectral of a supreme deity 's supposedly perfect Creation. He creates us in his very image, and as such we own our very existence to his good grace. If we break his rules (which, rather unfortunately, were written by desert mules of a bygone era in the form of some rather insipid, erroneous scriptures), we are supposed to be punished for eternity in a specially designed barbecue pit, delightfully labeled as "Hell" by pious fools who claim that an eternity of roasting awaits the infidel foolish enough to defy belief. Of course, if you are a pious enough fool who has nothing but dumb faith in the belief of his supernatural abilities, you get to stay in the deity's designated residence, Heaven, for the rest of eternity.


Note that, in a theistic worldview, death can, and will be transcended: It is alleged that every human possesses a non-materialistic entity known otherwise as a soul, which, we are led to believe, has the ability to exist ad finitum.


In short, your afterlife is an ultimate choice between two extremes: An eternity of masturbating the Invisible Father's alter-ego and singing tawdry Christian hymns (Considering that I tend to fall asleep singing Christian hymns, this sounds a lot more hellish than heavenly to me. Any infidels share my sentiments???), or spending eternity in the fiery BBQ pits of hell, fueled by the fat globules of obscenely obese Reverends in the portly shape of Fall-well (As well as spending time with the likes of Marilyn Monroe and some really hot babes).

If one is to believe in such wishy-washy fairy tales, then I must admit, such a future (if indeed the atheist has any noteworthy future to speak of), is really bleak indeed.


A More Realistic World View: A Creator-less Existence

The truth, however, is far more emancipating than this depressing juxtaposition of unbelievers in relation to our existence. Most atheists do not believe for a second that an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent God can create something so awful an existence in the first place.

If we are to take a closer look at the universe, the universe does not bear signs of any form of "intelligent design" (An unintelligent phrase coined by Creationists to provide the grave image of God with a distinctly intellectual quality). Stars, such as our life-giving sun, will in time swell and collapse under its own gravity, creating gigantic black holes so dense that everything within its vicinity, including light, gets sucked into their vortexes. Asteroids hurl through space at such potentially devastating speeds, that one such massively destructive rock managed to destroy almost all life on Earth millions of years ago. Our very universe is currently expanding at an incredible rate towards oblivion, so much so that when it reaches the end of its lifespan, another "Big Bang" event reminiscent of the same event that created our Universe in the first place could very well spell the end of our universe's existence.

Life on Earth, as we know it, is hardly the stuff of intelligence. One particularly insightful person remarked that "Life is one giant restaurant. You either eat, or be eaten." Animals are constantly immolated by stronger, nastier counterparts with sharp claws and talons, and if this is the work of a benevolent Creator,I'd be better off worshiping the image of Hitler and his frenzied Nazi Party.

With the existing knowledge and evidence human civilization has garnered and continues to pile up at this point of time, the Atheist's position is sweet and emancipating: We, as human beings,are so insignificant in the grand scheme of the Universe, that atheists appreciate that we have survived sheer odds to make it so far in the passage of Time. We know, and believe that this is the only life we have in this spectacular, albeit imperfect existence, and that we strive to live the fullest possible life within our means. We are uninhibited by the fear of hell, nor are we driven to perform good deeds based merely on the imagined rewards of heaven (which is hardly enticing, in my view, unless you consider grovelling and prostrating in front of a male alter-ego the equivalent of sexual ecstasy).

Now, which religious creed can offer such pure, unadulterated emancipation, other than mere Atheism?