2 Y cuando los hombres emigraron desde Oriente, encontraron una llanura en la región de Senaar y se establecieron allí.
3 Entonces se dijeron unos a otros: "¡Vamos! Fabriquemos ladrillos y pongámoslos a cocer al fuego". Y usaron ladrillos en lugar de piedra, y el asfalto les sirvió de mezcla.
4 Después dijeron: "Edifiquemos una ciudad, y también una torre cuya cúspide llegue hasta el cielo, para perpetuar nuestro nombre y no dispersarnos por toda la tierra".
5 Pero el Señor bajó a ver la ciudad y la torre que los hombres estaban construyendo,
6 y dijo: "Si esta es la primera obra que realizan, nada de lo que se propongan hacer les resultará imposible, mientras formen un solo pueblo y todos hablen la misma lengua.
7 Bajemos entonces, y una vez allí, confundamos su lengua, para que ya no se entiendan unos a otros".
8 Así el Señor los dispersó de aquel lugar, diseminándolos por toda la tierra, y ellos dejaron de construir la ciudad.
9 Por eso se llamó Babel: allí, en efecto, el Señor confundió la lengua de los hombres y los dispersó por toda la tierra."
English:
Visiting the jesuits church I found this scale model ( from the architectonic point of view I don't like it at all), in which there is a central cupola with chapels attached arround, each one of them for each of the different religions in signal of coexistence and respect. Like the tower of Babel, but the other way around. That is, instead of trying to have the same language and culture, the religious diversity is the one that is joined in the building (and with this, the different languages and cultures). Ironically the archaeologists have located the tower in Iraq (Babylon). It would be great if we could have that utopia (the chapel) and avoid everything that is happening now. Here I paste the "text" that makes reference to the imaginary tower that I compare with the model , there it is the same God who would destroy it...
Bible.Genesis 11.1-9"11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
11:2 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.
11:3 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 morter.11:4 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.
11:5 And the lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
11:6 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.
11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
11:8 So the lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; 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."
And now I wonder... would there be a chapel for me, agnostic?
Note: both the name and the comparison are my interpretation of the model, not its architect's one.
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