Barrack Obama And The Tower Of Babel

In the Biblical book of Genesis, the story is recounted of the inhabitants of the city of Babel who decided to build a tower. Their purpose for building the tower was to “make a name” for themselves, and their intention was to “reach to the heavens”.

The interesting part of this story is that God recognized that the people of Babel were unified. And because of their unity, God realized that “nothing would be restrained from them”.

I’m not going to discuss the deeper theological issues in this story, but the fundamental idea is this:

• The people in Babel decided to build a tower to “make a name” for themselves (this was fundamentally an act of pride and rebellion against God)
• They were very united in their quest to create this great monument
• God recognized their unity, and the unlimited potential that their unity brought to them
• Since the people were united for a negative purpose, God took action to confound their unity

How did God confound their unity? By changing their languages. Right there in Babel, God made it such that the people spoke varying languages and no longer had clear communications with each other. The incompatibility of language destroyed their unity, and the Tower of Babel project was effectively neutralized.

Barack Obama never got this lesson.

Liberal democrat Obama was here in my home state of Georgia, campaigning for the Presidency of the United States. In a town hall meeting, Obama demonstrated his ignorance when he said: “You need to make sure that your child can speak Spanish.” Here is the video:

In his typical style which frequently involves making a statement and then giving a justification that has no basis in reality, he says:

I don’t understand when people are going around worrying about “we need to have English only”. They want to pass a law, uh, uh, “we want English only”. I agree that immigrants should learn English. I agree with that. But, but understand this: Instead of worrying about uh, whether immigrants can learn English - they’ll learn English - you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.

Really, Barack? Really?

Most immigrants that I encounter have no working knowledge of English. Yet every single restaurant I visit; virtually every place of business; virtually every church and every single government facility is staffed with people who are fluent in English.

Not Spanish. English.

This is America. We speak English. To have a multi-lingual citizenry is a positive thing - but not because Americans are forced to learn the language of immigrants. Immigrants MUST be forced to learn English if they want to take part in this country and its culture.

In the Bible, the basis of societal disunity was language discrepancy. Barack Obama directly endorses language discrepancy for the United States, and in so doing is an advocate for destroying unity among the citizenry of the United States.

Obama is directly ignoring a fundamental lesson in the very first book of the Bible: People are united by common language and divided by different languages. Maybe that isn’t important to you. It is to me.