To put it in appropriately Biblical terms, let’s imagine we have a few groups of civil engineers. One group is busily building the Tower of Babel, and bragging that it has grown so tall, it’s almost touching heaven! Another group is shouting “if the tower grows too close to heaven, God will strike us all down!” A third group is saying, “all that shouting about God striking us down isn’t helping us keep the tower from collapsing, which is what we should really be focusing on.”
I’m wishing for a group of engineers who are focused on asking whether building a taller and taller tower really gets us closer and closer to heaven.
To put it in appropriately Biblical terms, let’s imagine we have a few groups of civil engineers. One group is busily building the Tower of Babel, and bragging that it has grown so tall, it’s almost touching heaven! Another group is shouting “if the tower grows too close to heaven, God will strike us all down!” A third group is saying, “all that shouting about God striking us down isn’t helping us keep the tower from collapsing, which is what we should really be focusing on.”
I’m wishing for a group of engineers who are focused on asking whether building a taller and taller tower really gets us closer and closer to heaven.