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To: Greg or e who wrote (14630)	3/18/2011 7:15:25 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

The bible says the Tower of Babel was so named: because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth, “the name “Babel” supposedly deriving from “balal”, “confound”. The Holy Ghost was kidding us again! The cuneiform tablets found in the ruins of Babylon tell us exactly what the Babylonians called it—Bab-ilu, “the gate of God”, sometimes written with two signs, a gate and god, so there can be no doubt about it. Now the obvious etymology of Babel in Hebrew is precisely the same, “the gate of God”, so it has nothing to do with confounding. The place was a temple of seven platforms, each tinted a different colour, and each dedicated to one of the seven planets. The story of the confusion of languages was a reflexion of the cosmopolitan nature of the country that Babel represented. “ askwhy.co.uk New research indicates that “babel” very likely owes much to a 21st century moron who was known as a calumnious liar and EXTREMELY ugly BIGOT!!