re: Do you believe that the United States was founded as a Christian Nation?

I've come to grips with the reality that life may very well ultimately be meaningless and the conscious awareness of our plight is just an accident of evolution. One day billions of years from now the Earth will be swallowed by an expanding Sun and not one single thing we ever enjoyed, fought for or argued about will matter.

I mean, is there any objective reason to believe that there is anything to life apart from the worth we subjectively derive from it? I certainly haven't come across it yet if so. We assume that animals live and die everyday largely without lasting significance, why should we be any different just because we are aware of our existence?

In the end, the very fact that I'm here and able to think about this is so wild and amazing to me that it overrides the impending insignificance of it all. In some ways it is probably better this way, the idea of an eternal existence where we can ponder our faults as a species even after death seems awful in many ways. If you live long, everyone reaches the point where they've just seen all they need to see of human existence. Eternal consciousness, even in paradise, seems like torture to me.