In December 2000
the European Union opened its' Parliament
building in Strasberg, France modeled after Dutch
artist Pieter Brueghel's famous 16th century
painting "The Tower of Babel".
The actual Tower of Babel was condemned by God in
Genesis 11 because of man's pride and arrogance: "And
the LORD came down to see the city and the tower,
which the children of men builded. And the LORD
said, Behold, the people is one, and they have
all one language; and this they begin to do: and
now nothing will be restrained from them, which
they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down,
and there confound their language, that they may
not understand one another's speech. So the LORD
scattered them abroad from thence upon the face
of all the earth: and they left off to build the
city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel;
because the LORD did there confound the language
of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD
scatter them abroad upon the face of all the
earth." (Genesis 11:5-9)
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