{"id":3446,"date":"2021-10-10T16:54:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T16:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2021-10-14T16:07:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T16:07:42","slug":"the-tower-of-babel-and-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/10\/the-tower-of-babel-and-nationalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tower of Babel and Nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol>\n<li> And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.\n<\/li><li> 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.\n<\/li><li> And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.\n<\/li><li> 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.\n<\/li><li> And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.\n<\/li><li> 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.\n<\/li><li> Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another&#8217;s speech.\n<\/li><li> So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.\n<\/li><li> 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.\n<\/li><\/ol>\n\u2014\u2009Genesis 11:1\u20139\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Babel-1024x750.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Babel-1024x750.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Babel-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Babel-768x562.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Babel-1200x878.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Babel.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p><p>\nMy view of the necessary condition for nationalism:<\/p><p>\n<\/p><li>If you want to do anything cooperatively, you must have a common language.<p><\/p><p>\n<\/p><\/li><li>If you do not have a common language, you cannot do anything cooperatively.<\/li>\n<\/p><p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o4M4AokrSGQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 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. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. 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