Fr Ray Blake has a post offering food for thought in comparing pictures of the new Shard in London to the Tower of Babel. I was actually there just yesterday (the Shard, not the Tower of Babel) since the Jubilee line was suspended for a bit. I popped out of London Bridge Station for a breath of fresh air and realised that the exit I used was just along from the new building.
A local cabbie who happened also to be a historian of twentieth century neo-modernism told me that there was a wonky theologian roped to the top of that building. He is called "Tied Hard to Shard End."
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Not many theologian jokes around!
Groan
I can picture King Küng at the top of that skyscraper.
Wiv a loada biplanes buzzin' Rahner baht 'is 'ead.
How horrible
What a striking contrast of the soulless, banal, brutally alienating structures above with the glimpse of Victorian red-brick arcades below. It's a perfect symbol of where post-Christian Western civilization is heading: barren, ugly, mechanistic, decadent.
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