So Berry didn't like people living together in harmony and getting along. He preferred unending misunderstandings, mistrust and endless tribal wars and ethnic conflicts that continue to this day.
Of course. Of El's and Ashera's children I think Yahweh was the god of war. Not who I would have chosen for my dedicated God, but maybe they needed his specialty desperately.
Hell yes!! It’s back from the early days when I first subscribed! Great work dude, this was the perfect story for an episode. I’m glad you addressed the actual state of Mesopotamian language at that time. Learning about the spread of ancient languages is what made me realize this story was bunk.
Let me start with this...the call by some people at the U.N. to rebuild the ancient city of Babylon. They want to build it in the vicinity where they think the tower of Babel once stood . Now let me remind you of the Biblical prophecy found in Revelation ch 18 about Babylon and it's destruction . What you have here is a prophecy about a city and it's total destruction, in a manner similar to Sodom and Gomorrah (You can go see the ruins of Sodom for yourself btw ) which will affect the economy of the entire world...a city which hasn't even been built yet...but it's already in the thoughts of the elites of the world (ostensibly to help the region of Iraq stabilize). That this city , which has yet to be built , already has a description of it's destruction in the Bible , is at the very least remarkable proof of the supernatural truth found in ALL of God's word . How do we know the Bible isn't merely describing destruction that already happened to Babylon in an earlier time period and faking a prophecy so the Genetically Modified Skeptic and others like him can say AHA ! It's ALL LIES ! We know from recorded history and sources outside the Bible that the city of Babylon was never destroyed. When the Medes and Persians captured it and killed Belshazzar , they did so by diverting the river that flows into the city , and then sneaking in on the dry river bed underneath the fortifications. Nothing was ever destroyed in Babylon, it just got run down and faded away . According to other Bible prophecies about the end of the world , there will be the rise of a kingdom unlike any other ...it will consist of a global government which ten rulers will report to. These ten rulers will each rule over one zone of "socio-economic activity" ( quoting the U.N. here ). FYI , North America is designated zone #1 ( that's the real reason for NAFTA , to begin integration ). This is the global government that the U.N. is working at establishing right now ...you can read about it from their interviews and published materials that lay the foundation out . This call to rebuild Babylon is part of the plans for Global governance because they want a new Babylon to be the capital of the world , the seat of power . What is the aim of the Global system ? To eliminate God , and show that mankind can solve his own problems , and create his own morality without God . It is in effect a united global rebellion against God ...I know you would be excited to hear that ! Why do I explain all this to you in a bit of detail ? Because it all goes back to the Tower of Babel . That is the motivation for world governance and a new world capital called Babylon , because the Tower of Babel represented the FIRST ATTEMPT BY THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD TO UNITE IN ORDER TO DEFY GOD AND CREATE THEIR OWN SYSTEM WHERE THEY ARE GOD. God told them to scatter all over the world and populate it...but they refused to obey God and started building a tower instead. This proposed new city of Babylon will represent the successful attempt at finally uniting in defying God and exalting humanity as god in place of God ( so they think , being unwilling to heed what the Bible says God will do to them this time ) . So , now I have explained to you from current events , and what they represent , exactly how the account of the Tower of Babel is most certainly , historically accurate. I could go into other evidence , but I wanted you to see a couple of things here : first , that the Bible is so incredibly complex in how seemingly totally unrelated events are actually part of something greater , second , it is because of these incredibly intertwined events that you can see how the Bible could never be a human invention...it could only be the miraculous supernatural work of GOD , and third , you need God because in joining yourself against him , you will perish . The next complex thing I will explain is the relationship to the fall of Jerusalem in 586 , and the wisemen who worshipped the baby called Jesus , giving him gifts of Gold ( he was a king) Frankincense (He was the High Priest ) and Myrrh ( the liquid they gave him as he died on the cross). I want to treat you with respect, and courtesy , but I also want to show you how you are mistaken about God and the Bible , but by explaining not insulting .
You should add this disclaimer if you want to avoid offending people: “This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are the products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.”
Technically, this was non fiction, because it is satire that actually holds to the source material perfectly, irregardless of the complete fiction it used as a source.
I believe you when you claim that you struggle to think logically. That's why ideas are best served to you in a cartoon format. You could have thought logically about all of this yourself, but instead you were more likely to wholeheartedly embrace the message of the biased interpretation and cartoon representation of a vaguely explained event that happened thousands of years before an author wrote about it, choosing instead to add to the propaganda of this art by posting a nonsensically dishonest attempt at mockery that actually only issues criticism of yourself and your lack of understanding.
Thank you for your support. I still need to get you animated into one of these (if you'd like to be a cartoon, that is). I just need a few pics. I think you should have my email. Let me know if you don't. :)
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The most remarkable thing about the story of the Tower of Bable is not the story itself but that any one especially in this day and age takes a piece of Near Eastern mythology literally and seriously.
1:35 Blobfish don't actually look like that. Those popularly known photos are what happens to it after you give it decompression damage from dragging it out of the ocean.
"Rainfallocaust" might just be the best and funniest description of the worldwide flood story I've ever heard. It also might just be up there with the best single word descriptions for anything.
Those are attributes attributed to God extra-biblicaly, it can be said that the Bible drew from old stories where God is a physical entity not unlike Zeus or Thor. In these stories gods interact with people and nature directly not to mention that these stories are most likely referring to things that were around them, the rower of babble is sort of like the ancient aliens of the time when confronted with ancient ruins.
I would think of Christians took holy text that serious they would consider what the book of Judas say . that shld have turned religion upside down. God isn't actually the creator, not the humans God etc. - its all nonsense like eveytbing else, but if they claim to believe the gospels why not the gospel of judas, ? - truly curious.
Genesis 10:8-10 Nimrod is just 3 generations removed from the Flood and the last 8 people in the world, yet he has a kingdom of at least 3 cities, so the question is not only what did he hunt, but where did all those people come from?
I think a New Testament graphic novel would be cool. Tell the story of Christ but when the gospels diverge depict them side by side. Each page have up to 4 rows, each a different gospel. When only one gospel covers an arc/story it gets a whole page. When 2, 3, or 4 cover a story they split the page equally. The page would only split if the depicted events differ drastically like Judas’s death or the number of people at Jesus’s tomb.
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Obviously this is a story thought up to try to explain why people speak different languages. But if you read that passage where God is apparently talking to other gods saying we have to stop these humans or they'll think the skies are literally the limits. And let you know that the Hebrews believe the other pagan gods were real, it was just that Yahweh was the most powerful.
Just for my own sake I took a look, this is from Britannica: The term monolatry has a connected but different sense; it refers to the worship of one god as supreme and sole object of the worship of a group while not denying the existence of deities belonging to other groups. The term *henotheism* is also used to cover this case or, more generally, to mean belief in the supremacy of a single god without denying others. This seems to have been the situation for a period in ancient Israel in regard to the cult of Yahweh.
Oh they very much believed in the existence of other gods. YHWH was initially a Cananite deity so was El. Both inspired the Hebrew god. Also verses like, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Literally implies that there were other gods to have. And God's jealously over idolatry of other gods certainly feeds that narrative. Genesis 1 even has the gods saying, "Let us make man in our image." And bear in mind that the Jewish authors of the Bible didn't believe in Jesus or the Trinity (and they still don't).
The name for God that’s used in those passages is “Elohim” (gods) the plural for “El” (god). Rabbis try to say the plural is simply representative of everything God is, so singular is just too limiting. Christians try to say it’s proof of the Trinity. Basically it’s a mess.
Zeb Goen While I don’t know Hebrew myself, I don’t think the situation is as simplistic as you suggest. You need to look at the grammar and vocabulary of a language to understand it. I do know that the ‘-im’ ending is used to make plurals in Hebrew (eg cherub > cherubim), but it may not be that simplistic. For example, in English we have words like ‘pants’ and ‘scissors’ but we never refer to one ‘pant’ (in reference to clothing) or one ‘scissor’ (though it may be used in some rare circumstance?). My point is you can’t take a rudimentary rule of another language and apply it as a blanket fact, equivalent to ‘all plurals in English end in an S’ (which isn’t accurate) or ‘all words in English ending in S are plural’ (which isn’t true). I believe there are examples analogous to this in Hebrew
In all fairness (HA!!!) the waters from the "deep" also gushed forth ..you know those vast oceans of water at the earths core . But do agree rainfallacaust is katchy!
I knew the Bable story failed because of my reading on linguistics (the distribution and diversity of languages doesn't add up with the story, just like the distribution and diversity of living things doesn't add up to the 6-day creation story), but this raises quite a few points I hadn't even thought of. It fails more epicly than I had previously imagined.
At my college graduation (I went to a Christian church-affiliated university) my best friend loudly called God an assh@le in the middle of Rick Warren’s commencement speech. There was some aside about the jealous god of the Old Testament, and she replied “God! What an assh@le!!!” It offended lots of people and it was wonderful
Thank you for making these, and thank you Anthony for your on going support. You and many others provide the means for Holy Koolaid to make videos like this to help us learn how to think. ^_^
Huh, always thought it was a weird story but I still believed it. Now I'm glad I can enjoy your satire. Great work! Can't wait for your next Bible history video, I love those!
Dude hurry up and make more please ... I love these ... and trust me , no Christian was going to watch this and not be offended already anyways. so for ur true fans bring back these obviously funny cartoons that depict how truly imorle the Bible is ... then maybe people on the fence that do have morals will be able to decide for themselves once they see how truly ridiculous some of these passages realy are ... you do amazing work keep it up man.
As a kid I found the fairytale of Babel interesting. Mostly because I never thought about it. As I got older and learned more about linguistics, though, I saw that it was nothing more than a half-assed explanation to shut Timmy up about why there are so many languages in Bumfuck, Nowhere-by-Middle-East. But then I thought about the story as an atheist. It shows one of two things: God is a coward, afraid of a couple piled-up bricks and people capable of climbing a long staircase, or God is incompetent, confusing people's languages because he's afraid but forgetting his amazing all-knowingness contains the concept of a creole, which is a mish-mash of multiple languages that invariably results when groups of people with different languages live alongside each other for a few decades. Good job, Doofus McDinkleberry. And no, some people might think Creole is a language, because they're familiar with Haitian Creole, which is a creole. I'm not sure what a linguist would say, but I'm fine with "Haitian Creole" being considered a language, but "Creole" is not a language, because there's a _bunch_ of'em. So next time someone says they speak Creole, you can be a smartass and ask which one, confuse and irritate the hell out of them, fail to explain, and watch them become angry because "nuh-uh Creole is a language the Haitians speak it" and you can ask about all the other ones in the list Wikipedia has.
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1:35 - Blobfish only look like that because they live super deep in the ocean, so when their bodies are brought above the surface the decompression causes their features to balloon out. In their natural habitat, they're actually pretty unremarkable, normal-looking fish.
Thanks for the video Anthony. I can’t believe how late to the table I am. Haha these Animated Bible Myths, videos are Great! I really enjoyed them. I am now following the newest videos on Holy Koolaid and they are all still pretty good. 11/2023 😅😅 thanks for the hilarious video content. ❤
Great work! As I was watching I was pondering upon the following issue: To what lengths must one go to be able to explain that a stupid story is indeed stupid? How much visualization and explanation does one need to get that an ancient fable with supernatural elements is nowhere near a historical event... I mean imagine doing a 10 min animated video on debunking the Existence of Santa Claus... Explaining in a vivid visual manner how a fat guy cannot squeeze through a chimney and crawl back again.. That is what this video is, only with other characters involved.
Yeah, unfortunately, a lot of people still believe the story literally happened. I used to be one of them. The goal is to find some way to break through to them. Hopefully, at least one of the points I made will be effective.
"THIS STORY IS OFFENSIVE" "But it's just being told straight, he didn't change any details." "YOU CAN'T PROVE THE EARTH IS MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD" "What? He never said anything about-" "HOW CAN YOU PROVE THERE WERE ONLY 200 PEOPLE AT THE TOWER OF BABEL" "Please stop changing the subject!"
yeah, the Earth isn't millions of years old. it's about 4.4 billion years old. but of course you will deny the evidence because you believe in iron age fairytales.
Well done, your experience shows in this one. I like that you slowed the pace a bit. Maybe I'm slow, but it feels more informative when I have time to catch what you're saying and get the jokes. The previous episodes felt to me like the mockery was a bit over the top and distracting from the valid criticism you had in them. This one really put the focus on the things wrong in the biblical story, which I think is much more effective, and is still entertaining.
1:35 - Blobfish only look like that because they live super deep in the ocean, so when their bodies are brought above the surface the decompression causes their features to balloon out. In their natural habitat, they're actually pretty unremarkable, normal-looking fish.
Another thing: it's not like big empires didn't exist before Rome. The Neo-Assyrian Empire was huge, and the Persian Achaemenid Empire stretched from Greece to India and Central Asia. Dinkleberry could have sent his zombie son at any of those times.
Did anyone else notice that the Y-axis on the chart showing the Tower of Babel vs. the Burj Khalifa lists 10,000 as 1,0000? Poor scientific rigor, Thomas! 😆 Loved the video! Keep up the good work.
Damn it! I hate when I make typos. I'm usually pretty good at avoiding or catching them (I don't think there have been any in the last 100 videos, or at least not that anyone's noticed). Well there goes my streak. 😔
My father always said that if the tower of Babel was really knocked down by Berry, then Barry would also be throwing air planes and helicopters at the ground too. And big cities wouldn't have sky scrapers.
The Tower of Babel story could be the most ridiculous story of Genesis. All this god had to do was munch on his heavenly popcorn while we built the tower past the limits of mud bricks capability to sustain weight and watch it collapse in on itself.
I've been thinking about this a lot with how people are so resistant to language evolution. How just the evolution of the word they can ruin relationships
Holy shit I just started watching this series yestetsay and was bummed the last one in the series was 4 years ago! Dingleberry works in mysterious ways!!!
Inbred humans: "Hey Berry! We can't hear you! So we're going to build a really tall tower so we can get closer to you! " Berry: "No... you're not..." Waves wand and screws with everybody's brain. "Ha! Now what are you going to do!" Inbred humans: "Because we can't understand each other, we are going to argue, and kill each other for the next five to six thousand years! Then we are going to invent Rosetta Stone computer programs so we can learn the other languages!" "Then we are sending people into space."
it was about 2 years ago when you interviewed KC on social constructivism and its only gotten worse since then. we need more people addressing this issue
My understanding was that God was punishing their blasphemy. He knew they couldn't build to the clouds, but the attempt warranted retribution. So... He created a ton of languages then prevented anyone from writing down this bizarre event except in the Bible. He probably separated families who no longer spoke the same language, but that's not his problem. God isn't a family man, hence the repeated child murder.
Anthony Guthrie, for your stupendous support of our shared interest... I, a humble commoner, present a Very amateur non-syllabic limerick as tribute: Over all beings there was one named Berry With properties and methods contrary. After people built a tower called "Babel", Because they were incredulous rabble They explained him as if he were a Fairy.
And, God's words are perfect and need to be followed down to the letter...which is why we changed from the old testament to the "new testament." Why is it shorter? Well, we cut out all the "fluff." By which, we mean, we kept all the parts about incest; and the other parts about that one chick whomst was lusting after the men whomst'd have dongs like donkeys and whose "emissions" were horse-like. NIV Ezekiel 23:20 "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses."
The Tower of Babble might be a reference to Babylon being being a cosmopolitan city with people speaking all sorts of languages. Genesis was written hundreds of years after the bronze age collapse into a dark age where even writing was lost. The existence of cuneiform writing no one could read could be the "confusion" of languages. Writing was invented AGAIN by the Phoenicians. The great city of many tongues and its collapse based largely on an oral retelling could understandably be turned into the "Tower of Babel" story with Chinese Whispers effects.
The biggest structures of a civilisation are built just before collapse. An observation made by Jarrad Diamond in connection with collapsed civilisations and Mark Thornton in connection with economic collapses short of civilisational collapse.
When we take many bible stories as literal history we miss much with a dream like quality of imperfect logic of dreams. The facts are lost in the midst of time but the feelings are preserved. Think of the Tower of Babel as cultural dreaming just as the fall in the Garden of Eden telling the story of civilisation (serpent, fruit of knowledge) having its price in "toil" tilling the soils all the days of your life, a realty we feel to this day, even though there was no literal garden of the sort.
So Berry didn't like people living together in harmony and getting along. He preferred unending misunderstandings, mistrust and endless tribal wars and ethnic conflicts that continue to this day.
Of course. He was a very warlike god.
Big parts of the old testament are little more than a chronicle of military campaigns and conquests.
Of course. Of El's and Ashera's children I think Yahweh was the god of war. Not who I would have chosen for my dedicated God, but maybe they needed his specialty desperately.
It would seem so.
True to form as a narcissist. (See Trump's works...)
@ Well, they do most of the time also claim all unbelievers are not real people to explain that "Thou shalt not kill (unless Gods orders it)" thing.
Of course! Because if people are living together in harmony and getting along, Berry and entire religion industry would be out of business.
Hell yes!! It’s back from the early days when I first subscribed! Great work dude, this was the perfect story for an episode. I’m glad you addressed the actual state of Mesopotamian language at that time. Learning about the spread of ancient languages is what made me realize this story was bunk.
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Are there any good articles to read on the subject?
Let me start with this...the call by some people at the U.N. to rebuild the ancient city of Babylon. They want to build it in the vicinity where they think the tower of Babel once stood . Now let me remind you of the Biblical prophecy found in Revelation ch 18 about Babylon and it's destruction . What you have here is a prophecy about a city and it's total destruction, in a manner similar to Sodom and Gomorrah (You can go see the ruins of Sodom for yourself btw ) which will affect the economy of the entire world...a city which hasn't even been built yet...but it's already in the thoughts of the elites of the world (ostensibly to help the region of Iraq stabilize). That this city , which has yet to be built , already has a description of it's destruction in the Bible , is at the very least remarkable proof of the supernatural truth found in ALL of God's word . How do we know the Bible isn't merely describing destruction that already happened to Babylon in an earlier time period and faking a prophecy so the Genetically Modified Skeptic and others like him can say AHA ! It's ALL LIES ! We know from recorded history and sources outside the Bible that the city of Babylon was never destroyed. When the Medes and Persians captured it and killed Belshazzar , they did so by diverting the river that flows into the city , and then sneaking in on the dry river bed underneath the fortifications. Nothing was ever destroyed in Babylon, it just got run down and faded away . According to other Bible prophecies about the end of the world , there will be the rise of a kingdom unlike any other ...it will consist of a global government which ten rulers will report to. These ten rulers will each rule over one zone of "socio-economic activity" ( quoting the U.N. here ). FYI , North America is designated zone #1 ( that's the real reason for NAFTA , to begin integration ). This is the global government that the U.N. is working at establishing right now ...you can read about it from their interviews and published materials that lay the foundation out . This call to rebuild Babylon is part of the plans for Global governance because they want a new Babylon to be the capital of the world , the seat of power . What is the aim of the Global system ? To eliminate God , and show that mankind can solve his own problems , and create his own morality without God . It is in effect a united global rebellion against God ...I know you would be excited to hear that ! Why do I explain all this to you in a bit of detail ? Because it all goes back to the Tower of Babel . That is the motivation for world governance and a new world capital called Babylon , because the Tower of Babel represented the FIRST ATTEMPT BY THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD TO UNITE IN ORDER TO DEFY GOD AND CREATE THEIR OWN SYSTEM WHERE THEY ARE GOD. God told them to scatter all over the world and populate it...but they refused to obey God and started building a tower instead. This proposed new city of Babylon will represent the successful attempt at finally uniting in defying God and exalting humanity as god in place of God ( so they think , being unwilling to heed what the Bible says God will do to them this time ) . So , now I have explained to you from current events , and what they represent , exactly how the account of the Tower of Babel is most certainly , historically accurate. I could go into other evidence , but I wanted you to see a couple of things here : first , that the Bible is so incredibly complex in how seemingly totally unrelated events are actually part of something greater , second , it is because of these incredibly intertwined events that you can see how the Bible could never be a human invention...it could only be the miraculous supernatural work of GOD , and third , you need God because in joining yourself against him , you will perish . The next complex thing I will explain is the relationship to the fall of Jerusalem in 586 , and the wisemen who worshipped the baby called Jesus , giving him gifts of Gold ( he was a king) Frankincense (He was the High Priest ) and Myrrh ( the liquid they gave him as he died on the cross). I want to treat you with respect, and courtesy , but I also want to show you how you are mistaken about God and the Bible , but by explaining not insulting .
@@markanthony3275 yeah that was a load of nonsense thank you, i will never get back the time i wasted on this garbage..
@@finalsix7195 yea true. That's why I am a Muslim. Islam is true.
You should add this disclaimer if you want to avoid offending people:
“This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are the products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.”
How dare you insinuate that Berry isn't a real person!!!!! *Blasphemy Outrage Intensifies* ;)
"This is a work of fiction. Just like the story it was based on."
JP Unfortunately, authors who carefully display that legal disclaimer still get taken to court.
Technically, this was non fiction, because it is satire that actually holds to the source material perfectly, irregardless of the complete fiction it used as a source.
@@tripolarmdisorder7696 Fair point
Me, as a Christian a few years ago : Get away from me Satan! Don't make me think logically.
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I believe you when you claim that you struggle to think logically.
That's why ideas are best served to you in a cartoon format.
You could have thought logically about all of this yourself, but instead you were more likely to wholeheartedly embrace the message of the biased interpretation and cartoon representation of a vaguely explained event that happened thousands of years before an author wrote about it, choosing instead to add to the propaganda of this art by posting a nonsensically dishonest attempt at mockery that actually only issues criticism of yourself and your lack of understanding.
Great stuff, Thomas! Thank you for all you do in promoting rationality and empathy!
Thank you for your support. I still need to get you animated into one of these (if you'd like to be a cartoon, that is). I just need a few pics. I think you should have my email. Let me know if you don't. :)
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Thank you for bringing this back!
Thank YOU Anthony!
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An ode to Guthrie;
I'm rubbish at poetry...
Praise Be, Anthony!
Praise be!
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Anthony Guthrie is ahead of the curve
And handsome also
This channel is a kryptonite to christian apologists
"Perhaps the world's first inbred gazelle". **clonk**
I laughed so loudly at that (on a bus) that I've gotten strange looks from my fellow passengers.
That part had me laughing out loud as well and that doesn't happen too often with UA-cam videos.
The most remarkable thing about the story of the Tower of Bable is not the story itself but that any one especially in this day and age takes a piece of Near Eastern mythology literally and seriously.
We definitely need more of these animated bible stories. 😂😂
1:35 Blobfish don't actually look like that. Those popularly known photos are what happens to it after you give it decompression damage from dragging it out of the ocean.
"Rainfallocaust" might just be the best and funniest description of the worldwide flood story I've ever heard. It also might just be up there with the best single word descriptions for anything.
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The omnipresent god had to come down to check on the people despite being omniscient? 🤔
Those are attributes attributed to God extra-biblicaly, it can be said that the Bible drew from old stories where God is a physical entity not unlike Zeus or Thor.
In these stories gods interact with people and nature directly not to mention that these stories are most likely referring to things that were around them, the rower of babble is sort of like the ancient aliens of the time when confronted with ancient ruins.
Well, maybe he was only present before then and he had to level up to omnipresence?
The classic absentee father story
He even ask satan where he come from in job, and asking adams why he hiding lol
I would think of Christians took holy text that serious they would consider what the book of Judas say . that shld have turned religion upside down. God isn't actually the creator, not the humans God etc. - its all nonsense like eveytbing else, but if they claim to believe the gospels why not the gospel of judas, ? - truly curious.
Genesis 10:8-10 Nimrod is just 3 generations removed from the Flood and the last 8 people in the world, yet he has a kingdom of at least 3 cities, so the question is not only what did he hunt, but where did all those people come from?
To be honest, I preferred Dinkleberry, but it's nice to know the origin story of 'Berry.'
I like the lonely penguin walking back home through the desert after the flood XD
I think a New Testament graphic novel would be cool. Tell the story of Christ but when the gospels diverge depict them side by side. Each page have up to 4 rows, each a different gospel. When only one gospel covers an arc/story it gets a whole page. When 2, 3, or 4 cover a story they split the page equally.
The page would only split if the depicted events differ drastically like Judas’s death or the number of people at Jesus’s tomb.
I am so happy this series is back, it was a great help when I was deconverting. It's also a fantastic teaching tool for children
What religion did u deconvert from
O Anthony Guthrie
Great art thou among men
And greater among Patrons on Patreon.
Thy gift of “Animated Bible Myths: the Tower of Babel” shall improve the lives of many.
Obviously this is a story thought up to try to explain why people speak different languages. But if you read that passage where God is apparently talking to other gods saying we have to stop these humans or they'll think the skies are literally the limits. And let you know that the Hebrews believe the other pagan gods were real, it was just that Yahweh was the most powerful.
Just for my own sake I took a look, this is from Britannica:
The term monolatry has a connected but different sense; it refers to the worship of one god as supreme and sole object of the worship of a group while not denying the existence of deities belonging to other groups. The term *henotheism* is also used to cover this case or, more generally, to mean belief in the supremacy of a single god without denying others. This seems to have been the situation for a period in ancient Israel in regard to the cult of Yahweh.
Oh they very much believed in the existence of other gods. YHWH was initially a Cananite deity so was El. Both inspired the Hebrew god.
Also verses like, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Literally implies that there were other gods to have. And God's jealously over idolatry of other gods certainly feeds that narrative.
Genesis 1 even has the gods saying, "Let us make man in our image." And bear in mind that the Jewish authors of the Bible didn't believe in Jesus or the Trinity (and they still don't).
They were just a bunch of primitive,superstitious,barbarians trying to explain things they didn't or couldn't understand.
The name for God that’s used in those passages is “Elohim” (gods) the plural for “El” (god). Rabbis try to say the plural is simply representative of everything God is, so singular is just too limiting. Christians try to say it’s proof of the Trinity. Basically it’s a mess.
Zeb Goen While I don’t know Hebrew myself, I don’t think the situation is as simplistic as you suggest. You need to look at the grammar and vocabulary of a language to understand it. I do know that the ‘-im’ ending is used to make plurals in Hebrew (eg cherub > cherubim), but it may not be that simplistic. For example, in English we have words like ‘pants’ and ‘scissors’ but we never refer to one ‘pant’ (in reference to clothing) or one ‘scissor’ (though it may be used in some rare circumstance?). My point is you can’t take a rudimentary rule of another language and apply it as a blanket fact, equivalent to ‘all plurals in English end in an S’ (which isn’t accurate) or ‘all words in English ending in S are plural’ (which isn’t true). I believe there are examples analogous to this in Hebrew
I love the artwork of Noah's Ark with all the animals stacked on top of it and one of Noah's sons shown as a pirate.
I was sad when you stopped doing these.
I'm happy to see a new one.
Now I'm sad to think it might be another long while until the next.
Thomas sure has a pleasurably pleasant voice.
I love it ... ( but I miss Dinkleberry).... that’s what I have been calling the guy upstairs since your last video. 😆👍
And face.
so if i learn every language i can do ANYTHING! even without maths and science and history, well done, Berry!
Did I hear 'rainfall-acaust'? Campaign for the official status of rainfallacaust to replace the flood. #rainfallacaust
In all fairness (HA!!!) the waters from the "deep" also gushed forth ..you know those vast oceans of water at the earths core . But do agree rainfallacaust is katchy!
I’m signed up lol
I knew the Bable story failed because of my reading on linguistics (the distribution and diversity of languages doesn't add up with the story, just like the distribution and diversity of living things doesn't add up to the 6-day creation story), but this raises quite a few points I hadn't even thought of. It fails more epicly than I had previously imagined.
Between the tree and the tower, Barry sure has a problem with people learning.
"Dare to be curious. But don't drink the kool-aid." A concept to live by.
This series came back faster than the second coming of christ 😅😅
Loved the video!
LOL the good ol' Z-axis exploit. Works every time until the devs catch wind of it.
I often wondered why you didn't do more of this. It's good to see it coming back.
Great work, your humour is really shining through on this one! Sad to hear of your family taking offence at your criticism.
At my college graduation (I went to a Christian church-affiliated university) my best friend loudly called God an assh@le in the middle of Rick Warren’s commencement speech. There was some aside about the jealous god of the Old Testament, and she replied “God! What an assh@le!!!” It offended lots of people and it was wonderful
When your set in concrete you need a large shock, to jar u lose.
Thank you Anthony Guthrie! These type of satirical videos were my first step out of my faith.
I just found this channel and subscribed. I've been a closeted atheist since the beginning of this year and I feel free.
Thank you for making these, and thank you Anthony for your on going support. You and many others provide the means for Holy Koolaid to make videos like this to help us learn how to think. ^_^
Have been waiting for this to return, and I don't mind the changes, even though I enjoyed dinkleberry and the tutu he used to wear.
We still get the tutu in flashbacks. And the Mr Berry's first name must be Dinkle.
Huh, always thought it was a weird story but I still believed it. Now I'm glad I can enjoy your satire. Great work! Can't wait for your next Bible history video, I love those!
Dude hurry up and make more please ... I love these ... and trust me , no Christian was going to watch this and not be offended already anyways. so for ur true fans bring back these obviously funny cartoons that depict how truly imorle the Bible is ... then maybe people on the fence that do have morals will be able to decide for themselves once they see how truly ridiculous some of these passages realy are ... you do amazing work keep it up man.
I am never let down by your content. Thank you for your videos
As a kid I found the fairytale of Babel interesting. Mostly because I never thought about it. As I got older and learned more about linguistics, though, I saw that it was nothing more than a half-assed explanation to shut Timmy up about why there are so many languages in Bumfuck, Nowhere-by-Middle-East.
But then I thought about the story as an atheist. It shows one of two things: God is a coward, afraid of a couple piled-up bricks and people capable of climbing a long staircase, or God is incompetent, confusing people's languages because he's afraid but forgetting his amazing all-knowingness contains the concept of a creole, which is a mish-mash of multiple languages that invariably results when groups of people with different languages live alongside each other for a few decades. Good job, Doofus McDinkleberry.
And no, some people might think Creole is a language, because they're familiar with Haitian Creole, which is a creole. I'm not sure what a linguist would say, but I'm fine with "Haitian Creole" being considered a language, but "Creole" is not a language, because there's a _bunch_ of'em. So next time someone says they speak Creole, you can be a smartass and ask which one, confuse and irritate the hell out of them, fail to explain, and watch them become angry because "nuh-uh Creole is a language the Haitians speak it" and you can ask about all the other ones in the list Wikipedia has.
So great to see this animated series back! congratulations
Thanks for this neat video, Thomas! Welcome back, Berry! Looking forward to more. Two thumbs up, Anthony Guthrie!
It’s important to remember, that just because some smart people advance the human race, doesn’t make everyone smart
This was amazing. I loved it.
And thank you, Anthony!
Nice one Thomas. I really miss these animated Bible myth stories And I hope you do more in the future.
Make sure you're subscribed and smash that Dinglebutton for notifications.
If you like this, check out the whole series here: ua-cam.com/play/PLCTNr4WPOQ96E19MU-vR0EasSekbXrZis.html
I kinda got banned from your discord server for a dumb reason, I messaged you on Instagram, can we please talk about it?
Thank you again ... for me , it will always be Dinkleberry ! 😊👍
Original ABM fans will always know deep down inside what his full name is.
I’ve just found you and I love your videos! Thank you! And special thanks for the 3 seconds of Manson! 🖤🖤🖤
I wish you had made more of these. 😭
So amazing! Your humor and care are genuinely appreciated! I’m secretly hoping for a Doctor Seuss style video. 😆
This video made my morning! I missed these videos so much.
If God really wanted us in Heaven, he woulda created us there.
He tried that with the 'angels' first... didn't work ie they rebelled anyways ;(
@@springNoNWo Never even gave us a chance.
We were kinda created to be his pets... like hamsters
1:35 - Blobfish only look like that because they live super deep in the ocean, so when their bodies are brought above the surface the decompression causes their features to balloon out. In their natural habitat, they're actually pretty unremarkable, normal-looking fish.
Thanks for the video Anthony. I can’t believe how late to the table I am. Haha these Animated Bible Myths, videos are Great! I really enjoyed them. I am now following the newest videos on Holy Koolaid and they are all still pretty good.
11/2023 😅😅 thanks for the hilarious video content. ❤
damn Thomas 😂😅🙌🏽🙌🏽
had to re-watch it a couple more times.
your sarcasm is a strong flavor,, 😄👏🏽👏🏽.
Thanks a whole lot for this
Really good stuff. Just started watching your videos, can’t get enough 😎
These bible myths videos are the best!
Love it! I missed these..
I like the name Dinkleberry. It's great. Keep it 💕😊
These animated Bible myths are the best thing on the internet! I hope you do more in the future
Great work!
As I was watching I was pondering upon the following issue:
To what lengths must one go to be able to explain that a stupid story is indeed stupid? How much visualization and explanation does one need to get that an ancient fable with supernatural elements is nowhere near a historical event... I mean imagine doing a 10 min animated video on debunking the Existence of Santa Claus... Explaining in a vivid visual manner how a fat guy cannot squeeze through a chimney and crawl back again.. That is what this video is, only with other characters involved.
Yeah, unfortunately, a lot of people still believe the story literally happened. I used to be one of them. The goal is to find some way to break through to them. Hopefully, at least one of the points I made will be effective.
I find your animated bible myths hilarious.
"False flagging of this video is a criminal act and will result in legal action."
No it's not and no it won't.
"THIS STORY IS OFFENSIVE"
"But it's just being told straight, he didn't change any details."
"YOU CAN'T PROVE THE EARTH IS MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD"
"What? He never said anything about-"
"HOW CAN YOU PROVE THERE WERE ONLY 200 PEOPLE AT THE TOWER OF BABEL"
"Please stop changing the subject!"
yeah, the Earth isn't millions of years old. it's about 4.4 billion years old. but of course you will deny the evidence because you believe in iron age fairytales.
Thank you for an awesome show tonight guys.
Well done, your experience shows in this one. I like that you slowed the pace a bit. Maybe I'm slow, but it feels more informative when I have time to catch what you're saying and get the jokes. The previous episodes felt to me like the mockery was a bit over the top and distracting from the valid criticism you had in them. This one really put the focus on the things wrong in the biblical story, which I think is much more effective, and is still entertaining.
This is the most hilarious episode！You were really inspired. 😇😇😇
Hey! Don't go insulting the blob fish, they're ugly cute.
Nah, just ugly
#Mr.Saturn
you mean fugly...
Like pugs and bulldogs? 😆
1:35 - Blobfish only look like that because they live super deep in the ocean, so when their bodies are brought above the surface the decompression causes their features to balloon out. In their natural habitat, they're actually pretty unremarkable, normal-looking fish.
Roses are red, violets are blue, for this new video, Anthony we thank you.
Rainfallacost! Brilliant I say!!
Another thing: it's not like big empires didn't exist before Rome. The Neo-Assyrian Empire was huge, and the Persian Achaemenid Empire stretched from Greece to India and Central Asia. Dinkleberry could have sent his zombie son at any of those times.
Did anyone else notice that the Y-axis on the chart showing the Tower of Babel vs. the Burj Khalifa lists 10,000 as 1,0000? Poor scientific rigor, Thomas! 😆 Loved the video! Keep up the good work.
Damn it! I hate when I make typos. I'm usually pretty good at avoiding or catching them (I don't think there have been any in the last 100 videos, or at least not that anyone's noticed). Well there goes my streak. 😔
@@HolyKoolaid Haha! Still a great video, nonetheless!
My father always said that if the tower of Babel was really knocked down by Berry, then Barry would also be throwing air planes and helicopters at the ground too. And big cities wouldn't have sky scrapers.
The Tower of Babel story could be the most ridiculous story of Genesis. All this god had to do was munch on his heavenly popcorn while we built the tower past the limits of mud bricks capability to sustain weight and watch it collapse in on itself.
I've been thinking about this a lot with how people are so resistant to language evolution. How just the evolution of the word they can ruin relationships
Holy shit I just started watching this series yestetsay and was bummed the last one in the series was 4 years ago!
Dingleberry works in mysterious ways!!!
Inbred humans: "Hey Berry! We can't hear you! So we're going to build a really tall tower
so we can get closer to you! "
Berry: "No... you're not..." Waves wand and screws with everybody's brain. "Ha! Now what are you going to do!"
Inbred humans: "Because we can't understand each other, we are going to argue, and kill each other for the next five to six thousand years! Then we are going to invent Rosetta Stone computer programs so we can learn the other languages!"
"Then we are sending people into space."
Berry was just mad because Jack used the tower to steal his golden egg laying goose.
I really appreciated the Manson reference!
Thanks. Eric Murphy suggested that I reference the song, so I came up with that.
it was about 2 years ago when you interviewed KC on social constructivism and its only gotten worse since then. we need more people addressing this issue
"All things are possible with God"... unless you build a tower to heaven and God will confuse you communicate. Oops...
My understanding was that God was punishing their blasphemy. He knew they couldn't build to the clouds, but the attempt warranted retribution.
So... He created a ton of languages then prevented anyone from writing down this bizarre event except in the Bible. He probably separated families who no longer spoke the same language, but that's not his problem. God isn't a family man, hence the repeated child murder.
Thanks Anthony!
I have seen the Nimrod castle from the road (we didn’t stop there) when I was on a Jewish youth trip through Israel. The name made me giggle
Thanks Thomas and A.G!
Thank God I've been missing these.
why does god need help defending him against people calling him names. why cant god come down and tell us himself?
Anthony Guthrie, for your stupendous support of our shared interest...
I, a humble commoner, present a Very amateur non-syllabic limerick as tribute:
Over all beings there was one named Berry
With properties and methods contrary.
After people built a tower called "Babel",
Because they were incredulous rabble
They explained him as if he were a Fairy.
I have to stop watching these while working out. I'm laughing my rear off!
Love this series!
Keep this up dude you have a gift from Dinkleberry!
"But.. But.. That's the old testament.. We follow the new one..."
And, God's words are perfect and need to be followed down to the letter...which is why we changed from the old testament to the "new testament." Why is it shorter? Well, we cut out all the "fluff." By which, we mean, we kept all the parts about incest; and the other parts about that one chick whomst was lusting after the men whomst'd have dongs like donkeys and whose "emissions" were horse-like.
NIV Ezekiel 23:20 "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses."
@Em Eye Kay LOL! Ezekiel is the main reason why I think the Bible is/was simply ancient pornography.
God is so mysterious. Will his wonders never cease?
My only issue with this is that it's over so quickly. I guess time really does fly when your having fun...
You had me at ‘Rainfallacorst’
The Tower of Babble might be a reference to Babylon being being a cosmopolitan city with people speaking all sorts of languages. Genesis was written hundreds of years after the bronze age collapse into a dark age where even writing was lost. The existence of cuneiform writing no one could read could be the "confusion" of languages. Writing was invented AGAIN by the Phoenicians. The great city of many tongues and its collapse based largely on an oral retelling could understandably be turned into the "Tower of Babel" story with Chinese Whispers effects.
The biggest structures of a civilisation are built just before collapse. An observation made by Jarrad Diamond in connection with collapsed civilisations and Mark Thornton in connection with economic collapses short of civilisational collapse.
When we take many bible stories as literal history we miss much with a dream like quality of imperfect logic of dreams. The facts are lost in the midst of time but the feelings are preserved. Think of the Tower of Babel as cultural dreaming just as the fall in the Garden of Eden telling the story of civilisation (serpent, fruit of knowledge) having its price in "toil" tilling the soils all the days of your life, a realty we feel to this day, even though there was no literal garden of the sort.