(August 23, 2015 at 5:04 am)Whateverist the White Wrote: They say believers have an advantage in feeling they have a purpose in life and confidence in that. Good for them. I prefer not to submerge myself in any purpose and to embrace uncertainty as the only constant. When I taught I had a strong, tangible sense of purpose each day but I was never a missionary about it. I never bought into any personal mythology in that regard. My goals in life would not be met merely by going to the grave as a chipper, upbeat guy. So religion isn't for everyone.
Hitler had a purpose. so did Nat Turner and Mussolini.
Historically, people who've had a purpose in life have been relentlessly evil. They could never turn away from their evil ways without turning away from their purpose in life.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.