Here is the relationship which undergirds all other relationships. For man to deny his relationship to God is as foolish as denying his relationship to others or to the environment. If man is not related to God, he has no value and life has no meaning. If God is dead, man also is dead. At most, he becomes merely a configuration of molecules.
Freedom is an illusion.
He is both an accidental product and victim of circumstances. Like an organ stop, he cannot act but only react. Life is then a journey toward nothing. And that which ends in nothing is worth nothing. Death rises up to crush him like a discarded cigarette butt under the heel of a meaningless universe.