This bothers me.
These are not the only options. You see a little kid walking by an ant-hill, and the ant-hill is in despair. Perhaps some disease or collapse has killed many ants. This doesn’t even register with the kid, or with other people walking by it. They don’t even notice. They aren’t evil, or impotent, and certainly not imaginary.
And, I think, if God does exist, he has bigger concerns than the human race and the planet Earth. We are, after all, only one species, on one planet, in a universe of countless galaxies. Why do we, as humans, think ourselves to be so important? We used to think ourselves to be the center of the universe, and now, we still do, just not so literally. If God exists, why does he not stop premature death? He doesn’t even realize it’s there, and if he does, he doesn’t understand why it is an issue. It’s so small to him. Anthropocentrism has always been prevalent, and I don’t suppose that will change, but people really must realize that we aren’t all there is.
I am agnostic, because to be anything else would be to claim you know something that you do not; but I am also anti-anthropocentrist. I do not believe humans are central in, well, just about anything except for our own lives, and our own minds.
I love you Andy.
