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   SuperLutheran (kicky half) (superlutheran@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 01:24:43 JST SuperLutheran (kicky half)
   Speaking of Babel, people need to understand that it is an act of wickedness and disaster equal to if not worse than the fall in Eden.
   
   Under the rule of Nimrod, mankind took its own side. God had told their ancestors to spread over the earth after the great Flood, and they responded by building Babel and the tower so that this would not happen. And if God responded by judging them? Well their earliest memory of His wrath was a flood, so their tower was designed to keep them safe in case the rains started again.
   
   Babel was the birth of the second enemy of the Christian: the World. Organized humanity which tries to reach divinity by collective action, political accomplishments, and ingenuity. The Babel spirit instilled in the hearts of humanists says "we shouldn't need to rely on God this much. We shouldn't have to pray for mercy and good harvests, or ask for forgiveness. We shouldn't have to pick between God and the devil: let us forge our own path."
   
   It was the introduction of an entirely new kind of evil.
   
   The devil himself must have been surprised and delighted by this development. See, the devil wants most people to just rebel against God individually. He and his demons can't tempt everyone in the same way at the same time after all. But the innovation of Babel showed him that humanity takes easily to leadership: hierarchy organizes people and reduces a lot of the devil's legwork. One tribal chieftain might succumb to temptation and lead a few dozen or a few hundred people to apostasy. But get empires together with unified languages, currencies, ideologues and great leaders, and you can send millions upon millions to hell. Emperors and presidents are his favorite people now.
   
   Babel was intended to be mankind taking his own side, rebelling against God in a novel way. What Nimrod did not realize was that in practice it was just humanity's greatest gift to satan, permitting him to exercise even further control over the levers of damnation.
   
   Globalism, especially global managerialism, is the modern manifestation of this great evil in our history. It does the same things, functions the same way, and leads to the same disastrous consequences.