(February 28, 2016 at 1:15 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: If you're an atheist, then I don't see why/how you can say there is any purpose to our existence. If you personally want to live for something, then that's a purpose to you, but other than that, I don't see how you can think there is some sort of grand purpose for the existence of life.
Purpose is the reason to chose a path to get to an arbitrary end. Really simple actually. I don't understand as to why you would need some kind of "cosmic" purpose?! We have exactly the same purpose as you do, just without the: "repent in time as a cosmic fire insurance".
Isn't it true that you can be horrible your entire life and just repent in time and go to heaven anyway? I have never heard of a story of someone asking jesus for forgiveness where the actual answer was: no, I won't forgive. Regarding purpose: the christian is (as always) in exactly the same boot, the end game is just a tiny bit different.
