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Why didn’t anybody just Google ‘nimrod’ smh
That just screams that folks don’t actually read the Bible.
Well, that, or 7 year olds just took context and ran with it.
Hah what a maroon
Our thinking can be so twisted by religion. Imagine someone long ago wants to build a really tall tower. Nobody knows engineering, material science, etc. They just start stacking rocks on top of each other like they do when they made short buildings. Eventually it’s so tall and heavy that it’s no longer stable, one side sinks into the ground, and the whole thing falls over. And what’s their takeaway? Is it about learning from their mistake and trying again? No, it’s “God is punishing your hubris!” Religion just poisons the mind.
It also explains why people started speaking different tongues. And Warns the young to not build a thing so ridiculously big, building fall down.
Trying for what is progress, but in sight so you can achieve it is better.
The Icarus myth is still a useful analogy, even if you don’t believe it actually happened.
And what’s their takeaway? Is it about learning from their mistake and trying again? No, it’s “God is punishing your hubris!”
Just substitute any force or phenomenon bigger than human ability for “God” in that sentence and it’ll still apply to a lot of situations.
Builder: “I’m not incompetent! Uh… God didn’t want it to happen. Yeah, that’s it; the collapse definitely wasn’t my fault at all!”
I bet a lot of religious tenets come from a lie that got way the fuck out of hand.
That, and accurate observations that they couldn’t correctly explain. For example, prohibiting eating pork because it’s “unclean,” while having no clue about trichinosis. They don’t know (scientifically) how to mitigate it, so they just tell people it’s a sin.
-said in a world full of weaponized drones, AI deepfakes, and lying, lying nazis who don’t have the slightest clue how life works.
The tower of babel is a great lesson.
It was Daffy Duck, not Bugs, in “What Makes Daffy Duck.” (He says it around 5:36)
There’s a Big Finish Dr Who audio story, well two I think, where the bad guy is named Nimrod. A scientist in their stories. So not everyone thought the name was an insult…or maybe they did, huh, but figure if the name gets to be known as a main guy the Doctor clashes with they can’t really think he’s a complete fool.
Though I always remember the cartoons first.
I never knew about the connection to Babel. TIL
Same, our church growing up never talked about that. (disclaimer atheist now)
I know that scholars understand the “official” Bible as a combination of earlier sources. Still, it’s funny how much Bible fanfic there is. How do you decide which stuff is real and which stuff is too crazy.
How do you decide which stuff is real and which stuff is too crazy.
You selectively choose during each argument whichever fits your personal agenda.
Wasn’t it Daffy Duck who compared Fudd with Nimrod? Bugs Bunny calls Yosemite Dam Nimrod.
Yes, Daffy did it first. Maybe Bugs popularized it if more people saw the cartoon he said it in later, though.
I remember being so confused by why the X-Men villain was named Nimrod when I was a kid. I always assumed it was ironic or something but never really got it. Then as an adult I learned about the biblical Nimrod and was like…“oh”. I wonder what if would have been like if I hadn’t been exposed to Looney Tunes first.
if the punishment is that languages now change, his name being now synonymous for stupid, is a fit punishment
Gee, thanks, Einstein.
No shit, Sherlock
this immediately made me think of FDR: American Badass
This is the best documentary I’ve ever watched.
Imaging him returning now. “I am Nimrod!!… wait, why are you all laughing at me?”
“trump” will take on a whole new meaning
The airplane didn’t help either.
Imagine a book full of ahistorical stories being taken as historical. Now imagine anything that it says mattering at all. It doesn’t.
Damn point me to Jerusalem I got lost
