[mapontosevenths]

It's a metaphor for life, like most fiction. Does life have any deeper meaning, or is life just waking up one day in a seemingly infinite and hostile cosmos long abandoned by it's creator?

It's meant to evoke that feeling in an adult man whose long since stopped being aware of his own smallness.

I think it does a remarkable job of it.

[throwaway173738]

The journey through nihilism to existentialism.

[mapontosevenths]

Exactly. The religious references are there for the same reason they are in real life... That's how some people cope with a vast, cold universe that just doesn't care. You gotta believe something, even if that means making it up youself... right?