The Tower of Babel was man’s attempt to reach heaven. Everyone spoke the same language and the construction was very successful until God himself felt threatened by the determination of the earth’s human beings. Supposedly, God halted the people’s progress by drastically altering their means of communication. Suddenly word meanings were garbled, sounds were mangled and people could no longer understand one another. It was chaos.

"Language is the door to comprehension and comprehension is, well, the door to our future.”

As there was no longer one common language, people scattered and God was pleased. They now had little hope of uniting to rival his holiness. Sounds like the technique used by the European slave traders who shuffled their merchandise before transporting them west. Well, this is the same God who ordered the crusades and the inquisition, is it not?

One solution to our global problem is reconstructing a Tower of Babel by learning more languages. Each new word learned in Farsi, for example, brings one closer to comprehending the former Persian Empire as well as modern day Iran.

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