The reason why conservatives oppose communism, is because for them this world is full of sin and specifically created by god to be this. The communist attempt to create a working man utopia, and by even thinking about doing it, in their eyes they become the enemy of god. The builders had a "Humanity fuck yeah" mentality. They wanted the Tower to be a monument of what man can do. Without god. God of course got pissy and in order to stop it, he introduced identity politics. And of course they started to fight each other and abandoned the grand project and went on to live in slavery, feudalism and caste system like God apparently intended.
I dunno why, but something about the Tower story makes me feel addressed.
Huh. The version I was taught in Sunday School was that they wanted to build a tower to God/Heaven. Either way it's another example of the God character being a weak petty bitch using underhanded bullshit against someone stronger.
I'm not sure how it reads as a response to utopianism. At face value it implies that a united humanity is stronger than God, although we're talking about probably the single most insecure character of all time, so him feeling threatened probably shouldn't be read into very much.
Dylan Edwards
Yawn
Jeremiah Cruz
Anti-communism is build and based on these fairytales
Henry Murphy
nigga are you serious?
Hunter Howard
Where were you the last 200 years?
Dominic Bailey
On one way he is sort of right. The church is basically synonymous with reaction and anti-communism. We’ve also seen militant religious fascist movements (like the Legion of Archangel Michael) but not many militant religious communist movements. Christianity is anti-communism
Landon Reyes
That is not entirely true. The liberation theologists are a wacky and nonsensical brand of communists. They are idealists, but they are as much our guys as idealists can possibly get.
Charles Murphy
It's anti-communist because marxist regimes have a long sordid history of blowing up churches killing priests etc. maybe if you got off your hate boner and allowed us to worship God there wouldn't be so much bad blood.
The sin of builders was their pride. Their goal was not to improve their material conditions or promote the development of History but to "make a name" for themselves. It's a story about hubris at best and a warning against utopianism at worst but it most definitely is not an "allegory of communism."
