Why do Christians make God out to be dumb?

I think the passages about the Tower of Babel make God seem kind of dumb. It might not have seemed so at the time this silly story was invented, but in this day when we've sent men to the moon (without bumping into a firmament, btw) how is it logical that God would worry that this tower might actually reach heaven?But I think your question is misleading. It seems to me that it is the bible that makes God seem dumb. Christians go out of their way to offer the most implausible explanations for what the bible says in order to avoid making God seem dumb, intolerant or malevolent.

kofh2u quotes the bible:

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Revelation 1:16 "He comes with seven stars in his right hand"...

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Why is it that you fundies always stop right before you get to the best part? You don't even finish the entire verse, and yet you (not necessarily you specifically kofh2u, but fundies in general) accuse evos like me of taking our quotes out of context if we dare to quote any bible passage at all.In this case, you've left out the part about what Jesus will look like. The very next words say that he will have a two-edged sword sticking out of his mouth, which is interesting enough to visualise but one can't help wondering how it is that anyone might be able to notice it since his countenance, as the next passage tells us, will be as that of the sun. Thus anyone who tries to look at the sword sticking out of Jesus mouth (or just look at Jesus at all) would presumably go blind. Preceding passages tell us that he will be wearing a girdle made of gold, his eyes will be fire and his hair as white as snow. His feet will look like brass as it burns.Consider the picture thus painted: that of a gold-girdled, snow-white-haired man who's head, to all appearances at least, has been replaced by the sun but still retains such features as mouth and fire-eyes (an interesting idea, given that the "fire" is set against the direct backdrop of the burning sun), standing upon burning brass feet holding several stars in his hand and with a two-edged sword sticking out of his mouth.You honestly believe this crap?

I realize that most Christians take Revelations to be symbolic and that they acknowledge all of the linguistic devices you cite. My next question is therefore: how do we know when the bible is to be taken literally and when it is to be taken figuratively?Why is it that, since Revelations is so completely ridiculous, fundies see it as symbolic, but when it comes to things like virgin births, global floods, six-day creations, resurrections, and other completely ridiculous passages the bible is to be taken literally?