{"id":5598,"date":"2013-01-22T17:52:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T22:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5598"},"modified":"2013-01-22T17:52:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T22:52:50","slug":"the-new-babel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5598","title":{"rendered":"The new Babel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Famously, Nimrod, the hunter-king demonstrated his hubris to the Creator by ordering that the tower of Babel be built to place men into the very sky; the Creator rewarded them for their arrogance by scrambling their languages and scattering them far and wide.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, on the plane home, I had an interesting little revelation: The schism in the Church- and all the little schisms that have occurred since the original one-may well be the new Babel. There is no question that- like Nimrod, the church leadership grew arrogant and proclaimed itself to be the equal of G-d, and it is also no surprise that G-d decided he&#8217;d had enough of that crap and left the Church fragmented and it continues to fragement.\u00c2\u00a0 Note that in neither case did G-d actively punish individuals, he just prevented them from acting in directions that displeased Him. This has a lot of parallels in the current Republican party as well.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly seems as if the Creator is active in thwarting the plans of the hubristic. Do you think he has something special planned for the left? it&#8217;s almost fascinating to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famously, Nimrod, the hunter-king demonstrated his hubris to the Creator by ordering that the tower of Babel be built to place men into the very sky; the Creator rewarded them for their arrogance by scrambling their languages and scattering them far and wide. Last weekend, on the plane home, I had an interesting little revelation: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}