Our Very Own Tower of Babel

By Douglas V. Gibbs

On the Dennis Prager show the host began talking about death, and how he believes that groups that try to investigate what the afterlife in Heaven is like are wasting their time. It can't be understood, he said, and so it is a waste of time to look into it.

A caller dialed in to disagree, saying that the top psychic in the nation has talked to the dead and they have described Heaven to her. She said that in Heaven it is always 78 degrees, and everyone is about 30.

My laughter drowned the show out.

Prager went on to question the caller. What if 78 degrees is not Heaven for someone? Sounds like you are describing San Diego. Does that mean if someone in San Diego dies, to go to Heaven they go nowhere?

The conversation continued, and my laughter increased.

You cannot describe in human terms something that transcends human understanding.

Humanity's preoccupation with Heaven is fascinating. Heaven represents the only true successful attempt to create a utopia. Collectivists, a.k.a. liberals, believe that utopia can be achieved through big government. Some of them are under the belief that humans are evolving, and will eventually become god-like, and somewhere along the way utopia will be reached.

Human nature, however, dictates otherwise.

In our attempt to reach God, we have become no different than the builders of the Tower of Babel. They yearned to reach the heavens, not because they wished to meet God, but because they wished to become God.

The consequence was confusion.

The lesson was that man cannot overturn God's Will, then, or now.

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