The universe does not care

And again, I found myself debating religious issues with a religious person. Why should I? The whole universe (and it is a fairly big place) does not care. Many governments do not care as well, therefore why should I? Religions are (slowly) fading away in any case, relegated to more and more defensive positions by the usual couple of elements: freedom and culture. Humankind does not need to believe in additional lives to love and respect the only one we get and it is very clearly demonstrated by the million of happy humanists living very much concrete, first owner, lives. Interestingly enough, it does appear that atheists on average are happier and more empathic towards other beings and even more sensitive to social issues. Obviously such a statistic tends to be slightly biased because a substantial percentage of humanists is better educated and probably better off overall. Nevertheless, we (humanists) do not need a vengeful god watching us in this life, neither to get a better and rewarded round after, nor to behave "morally". 


However, what really put me off is the infinite, enormous, gigantic amount of hubris that any person of faith must have, in order to believe in anything at all, and therefore to elevate to forbidden heights, the miserable, useless and ignorant sense of self-importance, up to a point where it becomes comedy.
How ignorant about the universe must you be, to be able to fill yourself with such a deceiving immensity about yourself and your species? Who do you think you are? Really, please. The masterpiece of an elusive god who rolled the ball for 14 billion years just to see you, YOU, going around wondering about what to do in this life and how to get the afterlife? Really? How delusional can you be? How infantile, puerile, presumptuous and disrespectful of the real immensity of space and time. You microscopic entity, who needs to find a delusional self-hypnotic conviction of a second life because you cannot love your first: how dull are you? But you ask for intellectual respect. Do you? Does it go with a self-induced numbness based upon an unlimited presumption? Does it?  


There is no point in putting the space-time continuum, the eternity and the infinity, the majesty of the physical laws stretched inside a nova or in a black hole, the amazing crude fact that our atoms were forged in stars that have been born and dead before our own sun was emitting its first ray of light. 
If you are religious you must ignore the whole lot, simply because every single thing in the universe, from a law to an atom, from a star to a galaxy, everything reminds you about your smallness, your almost non-existence. Everything tells you that you are not special, at any level, whatsoever. Where the only real greatness is around us, everywhere, and we should just marvel in awe about it. Because it took 14 billion years for us to see what we see, to understand what we understand, and to become what we are.
Peace.