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Biblical Response to RSS— Hindutva Ideology

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(https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/news/story/demonetization-secularism-chapters-removed-from-cbse-syllabus-to-reduce-burden-on-students-1698303-2020-07-08)  The Babel Incident in Genesis 11:19 represented a type of assembly gathered together to build a city for themselves, and a tower with its top in the heavens. Objectively expressed, it was to make a name for themselves (v. 4). With obvious observation this chapter tells us that the whole world had one language, however, in most probability there were many linguistic groups and national identities in the Kingdom. In the previous chapters the book of Genesis mentioned ". . . each with his own language, by their families, in their nations" (10:5). This gathering was an indication of the presence of a certain political authority that had ruled and controlled over different ethnic groups. Probably, the Babel assembly was an assembly of the majority by the majority, fulfilling desires and wishes of the ruling majority....