had threesons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now Ham begat Cush, Mizraim, Put, andCanaan. According to Genesis 10:87, "Cush was the father8 of Nimrod, whogrew to be a mighty warrior on the earth." But Nimrod's kingdom was short-lived,destroyed by a flood of unintelligible words. Babel's original meaning was theCity of Freedom, but following God's wrath, it gained its present meaning: theCity of Confusion. Nimrod appears often throughout history in various types ofliterature. Dante showed Nimrod as an ogre, a mutated human, who because ofhis pride and arrogance attacked the heavens and subsequently confused theconversation of earth. In Aristotle's poem, he appears as the father of theboastful Rodomont, the most feared of all of the Saracens. Hegel views theGreat Flood as the tear between Man, God, and Nature since healed. Nimrod,the self appointed king, consequently reopens the wound. Hegel compares thisstory with the Greek myth of Ducalion and Pyrrah. Recently, political theorists etal, have contrived a model to explain tyrants and dictators typified by Nimrod. They have designated it to be the Nimrod Effect. The pattern begins when thedespot claims to stand between the people and the gods, the leader is a way forthe people to gain favor from the gods. In some instances, such as thepharaohs of ancient Egypt, the autocrat claimed to be a god himself. This is apermanent tendency towards tyrannical government. This is in part due to theabsence of God's blessing, for the human desire to as gods is direct resistanceto the concept of God the Creator. The recurrence of despots and autarchicgovernment shows up throughout all of history including: Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin,Hitler, Kim, Ceausescu, Saddam Hussein, Ne Win, Trujillo, Duvalier, Bokassa,and Idi Amin, along with many others.Following Nimrod, the pharaohs were the prototypical Oriental Despot. Inancient Egypt, the ruler controls the machinery of the nation; it can be set intom...
