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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

What If God Doesn’t Exist?

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.97.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

What if there were no God? What does that idea look like if you follow it to its logical conclusion? It ain't pretty.

Today, Fr. Mike shows us that meaning, dignity, and purpose come from the one who created everything. And the good news is that he made you on purpose, for a reason. And you matter.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The conclusion is if there's no God, then we're just space dust.

0:04.1

That's it. And if we're just space dust, then just relax.

0:09.4

Because it doesn't matter.

0:12.1

My name is Father Mike Schmitz, and this is Ascension Presents.

0:15.0

So I recently was talking with one of our students.

0:18.0

This is someone who's searching, right?

0:19.0

This is someone who's asking big questions and has read a lot when it comes to faith has wrote a lot when it comes to

0:25.2

aspects of science and of course caveat is I would maintain and I'll maintain until the day I die

0:30.6

there is no contradiction between good faith and good science why because

0:35.0

science is a pursuit of natural truth and faith is a pursuit of supernatural truth

0:39.2

truth cannot contradict truth so there is no contradiction between good science and good faith.

0:43.5

So anyways, back to our story.

0:44.8

And they were just saying, like, but here we are, we're just specs, right?

0:47.4

We're just specs that are flying through space, and there are hundreds of billions

0:51.6

upon hundreds of billions of stars and probably life other places in the universe.

0:55.4

We're insignificant like nothing we do matters.

0:59.9

All the squabbles we have these days and all the pressure people are under and to try to do this

1:05.2

or not avoid doing this other thing, he just came to this conclusion of just relax because it doesn't matter.

1:11.3

You're a speck of dust in the big scheme of things and you

1:16.2

weren't even our human beings. We're nothing. Therefore, since there is no God,

1:27.0

just do what you want because it doesn't matter. So relax and have fun.

1:28.7

Just love each other.

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