From FOX's November 17, 2010 Glenn Beck show:
BECK: So now, you're not saying Rabbi, you're not saying that they [the European Union] intentionally are building "The Tower of Babel"?
RABBI: Ummm, I think they are. I really do. I..I..I.. do believe, and was told, that the design of the headquarters of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France... ummm...was...the designers were asked to make it resemble the... the Tower of Babel.
BECK: They say... 'cause we called to tried to verify, and what they say is (chuckle) they're just... ah... they're just reflecting, like, the Coliseum.
RABBI: Yeah that's what we want to build in Europe, right, a place where Christians got fed to lions?
BECK: Lions, right. It doesn't really make it... it doesn't really make it any better.
Good grief Glenn, Brueghel, the artist of that painting, and Architecture Studio Europe, the architect of the Strasbourg building, both based their work on the Roman Coliseum, in Greece. Their "similarities" should be there. They are expected! Only a clownish buffoon would be surprised by the similarities. Just sayin'.
Here's MediaMatters' analysis of that show, and here's the extended article that Beck published on his website.
Let's see if Thomas Paine, Beck's new "America is a Christian nation" hero, had anything to say, in his brilliant book Age of Reason, about using Biblical stories to validate modern political theory, shall we? Oh look, here's one for practically any such occasion.
These books, beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelation (which, by the by, is a book of riddles that requires a revelation to explain it), are, we are told, the word of God. It is, therefore, proper for us to know who told us so, that we may know what credit to give to the report. The answer to this question is, that nobody can tell, except that we tell one another so. The case, however, historically appears to be as follows:
When the Church Mythologists established their system, they collected all the writings they could find, and managed them as they pleased. It is a matter altogether of uncertainty to us whether such of the writings as now appear under the name of the Old and New Testament are in the same state in which those collectors say they found them, or whether they added, altered, abridged, or dressed them up.
Be this as it may, they decided by vote which of the books out of the collection they had made should be the WORD OF GOD, and which should not. They rejected several; they voted others to be doubtful, such as the books called the Apocrypha; and those books which had a majority of votes, were voted to be the word of God. Had they voted otherwise, all the people, since calling themselves Christians, had believed otherwise -- for the belief of the one comes from the vote of the other. Who the people were that did all this, we know nothing of; they called themselves by the general name of the Church, and this is all we know of the matter. - Thomas Paine
Translation: The Story of the Tower of Babel, is a story.
I wonder if Mr. Beck thinks that those brilliant words of Paine's, from the Age of Reason, were as "powerful" and "amazing" as the ones that he read, but felt he had to "rewrite", in Paine's Common Sense?
Beck's One World Takeover Hypothesis . . .
Says Beck, "The whole world is being pushed into a" into a global model of government. And George Soros, we've told you, we've shown you, the strings, the strings that he's pulling are amazing. Is it a coincidence the E.U., and really, I mean that's, and that's where we're going, and he's a big fan, really? Global government?"
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