"It is absurd to define God as omnipotent and then burden him with our own myopic view of the significance of human beings. The concept of 'importance' is a human one born out of our need to make choices for survival. An omnipotent being has no need to rank things. To God, nothing in the universe would be more interesting, more worthy, more useful, more threatening, or more important than anything else."
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