Alarmed by reports that more than half of those living in Los Angeles who are between the ages 18 to 34 are bilingual, Bryan Fischer declared on his radio program today that the fact that more and more people are speaking a language other than English in America is a sign of God’s judgment upon this nation.

Seemingly unaware that the bilingual individuals profiled in the very article that he cited speak English in addition to another language, Fischer linked the rise of multilingualism in America to the story of the Tower of Babel in the book of Genesis in which God “confused the people with different languages” as punishment for their arrogance, saying that the same thing is now happening here.

“When God’s judgment falls on a nation for turning its back on him,” Fischer said, “one form that that judgment takes is that people lose their ability to talk to each other. It’s a form and expression of God’s judgment … I believe God’s judgment is beginning to settle in on this land in the form of linguistic isolation”: