Skyscraper
Bad Religion
Recipe for Hate
Come let us make bricks and burn them hard,
We'll build a city with a tower for the world
And climb so we can reach anything we may propose,
Anything at all
Build me up, tear me down
Like a skyscraper
Build me up, then tear down
These joining walls
So they can't climb at all
I know why you tore it down that day
You thought, that if you got caught we'd all go away,
Like a spoiled little baby who can't come out to play,
You had your revenge
Build me up, tear me down
Like a skyscraper
Build me up, then tear down
These joining walls
So they can't climb at all
Well madness reigned and paradise drowned
When Babel's walls came crashing down
Now the echoes roar for a story writ
That was hardly understood
And never any good
Build me up, tear me down
Like a skyscraper
Build me up, then tear down
These joining walls
So they can't climb at all
This song goes along with last week's Bible for Atheists post. It would seem that I am not the only confused and disturbed by the story of the Tower of Babel. The second verse of this song makes the same argument as me, that God is immature and weak and scared that humans will get too powerful, so he "tears them down".
I really need someone to let me know how Christians explain God's actions in this story. What do they teach you in Sunday school?
2 comments:
From a psychological perspective, god has a host of personality disorders. He's passive-aggressive, histrionic yet avoidant, narcissistic, and most of all, antisocial. In other words, a person's worst nightmare. Yet, this is someone to be worshiped? I, too, don't know how Christians explain god's immaturity and pettiness.
I really need someone to let me know how Christians explain God's actions in this story. What do they teach you in Sunday school?
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Do you understand the motive of the people behind building the tower of Babel? They weren't building it for more office space.
God confounds their language and uses this as a very powerful example to put in check human pride.
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