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No, it doesn’t. Purpose is subjective. What makes religion so relevant is that the universe shows no clear purpose at all.
It simply expands, decays, and obeys physical laws with complete indifference to whether anything understands it or not. Humans, however, struggle to endure the absurdity of their existence and the careless nature of the cosmos.
Even this Earth, so often claimed to be specially designed for us, has endured more than five mass extinction events, where nearly all species were wiped out without ceremony. Entire branches of life erased long before humans arrived to congratulate themselves as the chosen species.
Then religion steps in to explain what humans cannot fathom, using God as a placeholder for ignorance. It offers purpose, meaning, cosmic importance, and an afterlife stories that make our brief existence feel grander than it is. It resonates because humans are intelligent enough to fear death, yet vulnerable enough to seek comfort from fiction.
Cosmically, we are far less important than we imagine. Earth is a speck orbiting one ordinary star among hundreds of billions in the Milky Way, itself one galaxy among trillions. Every empire, war, prophet, prayer, romance, achievement, and ego crisis in human history happened on a grain of dust almost nobody in the universe would notice.
And even that grain is temporary. The Sun will eventually swell and sterilize this planet. Our species will vanish like countless others before us. One day, no monument, scripture, nation, bloodline, or memory of humanity may remain. The universe will continue exactly as if we never happened.
Yet some still believe their god dropped them onto this tiny dot to test their free will for admission into a heavenly kingdom. The arrogance is staggering. The stupidity, even more so.
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In your opinion, does the universe have a purpose ? ✍️
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