A Fictional Passage of Scripture

I write fiction.

The world of my White Empires series is like our own but quite different. The continents are named after the sons of Noah. The countries are different than those of our world... even when the same. The Confederacy won the War Between the States. The 1930s are the modern day. The atomic bomb was already developed... but rendered useless by enervation technology. Adolf Hitler is instead Adolphus Wolf... and does not have a mustache. The right side of his face is scarred. Speech was never confounded into languages. Contagions are unheard of.

We take our world for granted. We assume it could not be any different than how it is.

The people of the White Empires universe do have the Bible. Genesis 11:2-8 reads...

2  And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

3  And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

4  And they said one to another, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

5  And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. 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.

6  Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

7  Alas, the Spirit of God was troubled, and asked, shall words mean nothing? What is truth but gibberish if to speak the truth is gibberish, if to hear it earnestly is to hear gibberish instead? A man’s words shall be his own, to be heard as he speaks or they mean nothing, true or not. Forsake the word and I shall henceforward be deaf to every prayer.

8  So the Lord did otherwise, that the word shall be glorified. The Spirit of God lit a flame in the heart of a man, and forged him to become a hammer that shattered the hearts of stone. By reasons of breakings the people scattered abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Their power was broken. The people as one became many, as if a shattered stone.

Our Bible reads differently... but I like this one better.