Genesis 11:9

…yhwh confused the people with different languages.

In this way he scattered them all over the world.

What is a Diaspora? A scattering of the people? What is Diapause? Those same people going into hiding long enough to live so that they may reemerge at a later date? Essentially, it comes down to the scattering of a people, any people, because of adverse environmental factors such as genocide so that they may live as a culture. They are a culture that is threatened with being forcibly removed from their place and time and this includes people of multiple religions and cultures, not one. It has nothing to do with Jews or Christians.

We have to sift through all the incoherence to find the thread of unity in our faiths. What is the feature that bonds us? What is the feature that divides us? They are one and the same.

The people of the Tower of Babel were going to achieve great things for themselves but yhwh could not bear this, human independence was too much. If humans were independent then humanity would no longer require salvation. yhwh has shown a constant and desperate need for humanity to be dependent on him, like a drug dealer, he created addicts who are punished for becoming sober.

But why are people divided? Because there is power in numbers. yhwh doesn’t want the people united.