Babel –Globalization, the First Round

Gen 11.1-9

Babel –Globalization, the First Round



Now the whole earth had one language and the same words( v.1).





Josephus, in his Antiquities, suggests that the tower of Babel, probably built a hundred years after the Great Flood intended to provide some security against second one. Babel is combination of words, baa (gate), el (god) and balal (confusion). As in the case of later Babylonian ziggurats, the tower of Babel also must have intended to serve as a shrine of the Sun god, as well as an astronomical observatory. Babel has become a symbol of human achievement in architecture, engineering, science and philosophy as well associated with human pride, selfishness, vain glory and superfluous unity. A people with common language and political economy, starts to force a civilization with the support of their newly acquired technological prowess of architectural engineering and a unipolar ideology of power, very much symbolizes the present day globalization and empire building.





The postmodern Globalization of our times has idealized money, market, competition and technology accelerating the erosion of human integrity at the altear of competitive progress. Globalization suppresses local cultures, nationalities and ethnic identities to serve hegemonic designs of the multinational corporations. The story of the tower of Babel always warns us against hegemonic ideologies camouflaged as freedom and unity.



●Lord, save us from the evils of globalized market which sacrifices the weak for the advantage of the strong in the altar of progress.

● ● A unipolar world is a threat to human freedom.