Who instituted pagan and mythological religions, and where did that happen?
At the Tower of Babel, in the plains of Shinar in Mesopotamia's Euphrates River Valley, Satan, called the god of this world, instituted all pagan and mythological religions. This happened under Nimrod, and every pagan or idolatrous religion traces its beginning to that event.
Les teaches that in the interval between Noah and Abraham, about a 400-year period, the Tower of Babel stood in the middle. The whole human race, still of one language and basically one blood, met in the plains of Shinar, down in Mesopotamia in the Euphrates River Valley, and built the Tower of Babel. It was there, under Nimrod, that Satan, the god of this world, instituted all pagan and mythological religions. Les stresses that every pagan or idolatrous religion had its beginnings at the Tower of Babel. By the time of Abraham, around 2000 B.C., the then-known human race was steeped in idolatry or mythology, such as the Venuses and Aphrodites. Out of that idolatrous race, God found one man who still had a spark of faith or the ability to believe.