Barth asserted: “We ought to give up, even on our first day of deliberations, every thought that the care of the church, the care of the world, is our care. Burdened with this thought we should straighten out nothing; we should only increase disorder in church and world still more. For this is the root of all human disorder: the dreadful, godless, ridiculous opinion that man is the Atlas who is destined to bear the dome of heaven upon his shoulders.”
