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   From: tonyofbexarnospam@yahoo.dk   
      
   On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:42:29 GMT, www@probertencyclopaedia.com (Matt   
   Probert) wrote:   
      
   >On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:07:25 +0200, thomas p   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:00:09 GMT, Blak  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>snip   
   >>>make a celebrated name for themselves. However, Jehovah thwarts their   
   >>>intention by confusing their language, and so scatters them. The city is   
   >>>called Babel (meaning “Confusion”)   
   >>   
   >>The city was called Bab-ilu meaning "gate of God".  Just additional   
   >>evidence that the authors were writing fiction.   
   >   
      
   >I shouldn't try taking it so literally. Mythology can be quite   
   >amusing, and often very symbolic.   
   >   
      
   No doubt, but what does that have to do with my response to a person   
   who believes it is true and not a myth?   
      
   Thomas P.   
      
   "Life must be lived forwards but understood backwards"   
      
   (Kierkegaard)   
      
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