Ping!
Read “Privileged Planet” and then tell me how “insignificant” we are to the Creator.
If being an insignificant speck is a rewarding way to go through life, who am I to rain on your parade?
If humans are insignificant flukes, the concept of human rights is arrogant pretense.
People who worry about this are missing the significance of God, not us. If God is infinite, it doesn’t matter if we’re one of a billion or a billion billion planets He created. It isn’t as if He only has so much love or attention to spread around. He cares for each and every soul here and we’re six billion. If he made souls numbering six billion to the six billionth power He’d still love each one as much, would He not?
We are really talking only about our significance in our own finite terms, not His.
Yet God gave EACH man a privileged position. You exist. Ever thank Him for giving you a seat at the table? Or is it not significant because the "chances" of you being here were one in a billion billion?
and purpose:
Unfortunately for the Humanist, his theology of atheism often strips him of all sense of purpose. As Ernest Nagel explains, atheism "can offer no hope of personal immortality, no threats of divine chastisement, no promise of eternal recompense for injustices suffered, no blueprints to sure salvation...A tragic view of life is thus an uneliminable ingredient on athiestic thought."
I wonder what Carl Sagan would say today. Probably something similar to the rich man from Luke 16:24.
Why is this in news?