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Ken Ham feels victimized...by Glenn Beck?

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That's right. Ken Ham posted on his Answers in Genesis website how disappointed and upset he was when he saw Glenn Beck and a Jewish rabbi discussing the Tower of Babel, not in a literal sense but as a figurative tale. Unsurprisingly, Glenn Beck saw it as a parable about socialism, how man all became the same, but then God brought down the tower and everyone became happy individuals again. It's an interpretation that could nicely be called "novel", but of course Beck has many such "novel" interpretations of things. Ken Ham's just mad that Beck doesn't (apparently) believe in a literal Babel.

Here's the link: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2011/01/24/help-us-defend

Ken wants us all to know that his supporters should pray, or give money, to help defend the truth of AiG from an unbelieving world."We need to be doing all we can to help people understand that the history in the Bible is true." Yes, because we all know that every language in the world was created by God confusing humanity.

Apparently there will also be a Tower of Babel at the "Ark Encounters" project. As if the people who go there need to be further "confused"!

I would love for this to blow up into a major argument, Ham vs. Beck, but I'm not holding my breath.
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  1. ZenJanuary 26, 2011 at 5:35 AM

    I wonder where in the Bible they found a description of the Tower of Babel? Accuracy is a must when dealing with "history". ;)

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