When I look at my daughter, I sense her eternal value, her inestimable worth.
And yet, if we really are just the product of random collisions of stars, then that sense is really just an emotion. It’s nothing more than chemical reactions in my brain, honed by evolution over millions of years.
Look at your loved one. Do you really and truly believe that person is just an accident, existing only because it’s a type of accident that’s better at making copies of itself than other accidents are? In the final analysis, merely a more specialized arrangement of stardust than the arrangement of stardust that is your toenail clipper?
Oh, no, my friend. Tell me you don’t truly believe that.
When I look at my daughter, I sense an unseen reality, just as real as 2+2=4 and the Empire State Building. I sense her soul. I sense the spark of the divine.
When I look at my daughter, I sense the image of God.
Wow.
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