RE: If You Were An Atheist
August 15, 2015 at 12:26 pm
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2015 at 12:29 pm by robvalue.)
Kingpin: I wonder what your wife and kids would think to you saying life has no meaning without god? It's not an accusation, it's an honest question. Are they of no importance whatsoever if there is no god? And if so, why not? They are still the same people as before. Just because lives end, what stops them having meaning during the time they are happening?
I'd be very interested in knowing what meaning god does give you, and why life is meaningless without it. I'd bet a lot of money that you would be wrong in your assessment, not that my opinion has been asked for. I respect very much your humility in not claiming to know for sure. I would expect you to lose your way for a little bit, be confused and maybe depressed, but then to emerge stronger and happier than before. You may have needed religion when you are younger, but you seem way beyond it now. I think it's the hooks religion has in you that makes you think you can't go on without it. It's part of the game.
I'd be very interested in knowing what meaning god does give you, and why life is meaningless without it. I'd bet a lot of money that you would be wrong in your assessment, not that my opinion has been asked for. I respect very much your humility in not claiming to know for sure. I would expect you to lose your way for a little bit, be confused and maybe depressed, but then to emerge stronger and happier than before. You may have needed religion when you are younger, but you seem way beyond it now. I think it's the hooks religion has in you that makes you think you can't go on without it. It's part of the game.
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