If you forget God, you forget yourself. 🐑 In this video, Alex O’Connor urges us to pity brute animals—but as a materialist, what is the subject of their suffering? If consciousness is just neurons firing, who or what is experiencing pain? This echoes the error described in Wisdom 2 (seeing when as no more then brute animals), where the godless reason unsoundly: “Short and sorrowful is our life, and there is no remedy when a man comes to his end… Because we were born by mere chance, and hereafter we shall be as though we had never been… When it is extinguished, the body will turn to ashes, and the spirit will dissolve like empty air.” A worldview without God is also one without human beings. #ThinkCatholic #Philosophy #Materialism #Consciousness #CatholicFaith #Theology #MindAndSoul