The tower of Babel, a well known story about how a group of people who decided to build a tower in order to 'reach heaven' and 'be famous and not scattered' everywhere. The story says that God didn't like that idea, so he popped their balloons by scattering them everywhere and made them talk different languages.
It's odd to me how vulnerable God seems in this account. Why would he be upset that people spoke one language and built a tower? Is it because they wanted to pursue their own goals? Is that a bad thing?
I'm still finding these early bible stories easier to understand if I invert them: See them from the perspective of a relatively young Jewish culture with a theological view of the world. Then Babel would be a great way to explain why a nomadic nation kept bumping into other people who spoke different languages, and that God considered them, the Jewish nation, set apart.
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