RE: If You Were An Atheist
August 19, 2015 at 9:52 pm
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2015 at 9:53 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(August 19, 2015 at 9:47 am)lkingpinl Wrote: Precisely why I answered how I did, because I feel the same way. Without God, there is no ultimate meaning.
And without Santa Claus there is no supernatural being bringing you gifts on Christmas.
However, when you grow up - most people not only get over it, but in fact realize, that the act of giving each other presents is way more meaningful and fulfilling, than the self-centered childhood fantasy...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw