This tower was a grandiose structure, and undoubtedly it was intended to be a means by which man would glorify God. That is what man's religion has always sought to do. It is a way of making God available to us. Man does not really want to eliminate God. It is only sporadically and then only for a relatively brief time, that men cry out for the elimination of God.
Atheism is too barren, too pessimistic and too morally bankrupt to live with very long.
The communists are finding this out. Do not let him get out of his place. This is the fundamental philosophy of society. It is the tower of Babel all over again. Jesus was angry with the Pharisees for this type of hypocrisy.