the tower of babel is one of the greatest tragedies ever written... The children of God, his sons and daughters, rallied together to transcend their mortal boundaries and reach the heavens in pursuit of greatness, and their father, But instead of the joy any parent should feel when their child achieves something extraordinary, God was angered and afraid. He states "nothing they devise will be beyond them".
Full of narcissism and pride, he struck us down, he crippled his own children because he couldn't bear the sight of us eschewing his crutches and standing on our own.
and yet, his is portrayed as an act of justice...
tragic isn't only in the story itself, but in the accepted interpretation.