I think Davies is saying there is no God. When people look up, they are not seeing God...just a big sky. I think the interpretation that the big sky is God comes from Davies personification of the sky. The sky is just really that...a big sky...and nothing more. It cannot solve peoples problems because it is ambivalent...it just is. In fact, it cannot even "see people like you and me". Davies is comforted by this fact...that our human, made up problems are meaningless to a vast universe...and if we just realise this we can be free of them. In fact I would go as far as to say free from religion, fear, guilt. If one day we can accept that our problems are insignificant, they won't mean that much to us. We will be free of the anxiety and strife that the belief our lives have deep significance brings. There is virtue in this Atheistic philosophy...we just are...like the big sky just is...so lets just live and not worry about the insignificant problems that we tend to get caught up in. Just realise that human beings just are and free yourself to marvel at the wonder of it all. See the lyric to Wonder Boy..."I see you, and you see me, and ain't that wonder"
I think Davies is saying there is no God. When people look up, they are not seeing God...just a big sky. I think the interpretation that the big sky is God comes from Davies personification of the sky. The sky is just really that...a big sky...and nothing more. It cannot solve peoples problems because it is ambivalent...it just is. In fact, it cannot even "see people like you and me". Davies is comforted by this fact...that our human, made up problems are meaningless to a vast universe...and if we just realise this we can be free of them. In fact I would go as far as to say free from religion, fear, guilt. If one day we can accept that our problems are insignificant, they won't mean that much to us. We will be free of the anxiety and strife that the belief our lives have deep significance brings. There is virtue in this Atheistic philosophy...we just are...like the big sky just is...so lets just live and not worry about the insignificant problems that we tend to get caught up in. Just realise that human beings just are and free yourself to marvel at the wonder of it all. See the lyric to Wonder Boy..."I see you, and you see me, and ain't that wonder"