Gospel: Luke 7.11-17 Note: Part of this sermon reflects on the confirmation of three adults at this service. You are merely matter. Stuff, sludge, a mutated creature without a creator, risen up from a primordial stew. You are merely matter, and therefore you do not matter – your life is of no significance, and in fact, it would be better for the earth if you did not exist. You are a polluting gasbag, damaging the ecosystem. You are a blight on the planet. You are merely matter, and you do not matter. Such is the message of the New Atheists. Some of them hate you, and it is really a hatred of themselves, a hatred of humanity. They are not humanists, they are anti-humanists.…