To Infinity and Beyond!

My uncle died last year and his funeral service was held in a Baptist church. The preacher went on for a miserable hour and a half about how good people like him would be raptured to heaven and how bad people like me were going to burn in a lake of fire. At one point he said that atheists look up at the night sky and see "thousands" of stars. I think that sums up how small and pitiful his view of the universe is. I would imagine in his tiny, cult saturated mind the universe rotates around the earth and the earth is flat (because the Bible says it is). When he said "thousands" as if he had some kind of insight into the thinking of a non-believer (with a bit of a smirk on his face) I could only think of photographs like this one which spans an area of the night sky that could be covered by the tip of a pencil held out at arm's length. For him there's some kind of cloudy place with angels and people playing harps behind that pencil lead, for me there is something as close to infinity as our universe can give us. I would feel sorry for him if he wasn't a little nazi closeted fag piece of shit.


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from APOD