Bertand Russell Contradictive views

In an article entitled " A Free Man's Worship" Russell concluded : "Brief and powerless is man's life, on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way" On page 154-155 of Always Ready to Reason Greg L. Bahsen writes: "In the face of nihilism and ethical subjectivim Russell nevertheless called me to the invigoration of the free man's worship" Russell writes: " to worship at the shrine that his own hands have built, undismayyed by the empire of chance"

Greg continues by saying: " Hopefully the brazen contradiction in Russell's philosophy of life is already apparent to the reader. He asserts that our ideals and values are not objective and supported by the nature of reality, indeed that they are fleeting and doom to destruction. On the other hand, quite contrary to this, Russell encourages us to assert our autonomous values in the face of a valueless universe to act though they really amounted to some thing worthwhile, were rational, and not merely the result of chance. But after all, what sense could Russell hope to make of an immaterial value (an ideal) in the face of an "omnipotent matter" which is blind to values? Russell only succeeded in shooting himself in the foot".