RE: How do you deal with life now that you are an atheist? (With a little of my life)
August 26, 2016 at 11:58 am
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2016 at 11:58 am by RozKek.)
(August 25, 2016 at 2:50 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Personally I think people can only support that seductive sense of the human condition in a godless universe for so long. Eventually the reductive view of Man prevails leaving atheists with the bleak conviction that human beings are electro-chemical reactions advanced by chance and necessity. We are only physical and purely physical things aren’t about anything; they just are. That perspective is literally dehumanizing because it dismisses as illusions the very things that make us human, such as rationality, signification, choice, and personal identity.
As I see it, hope is not about clinging to comforting illusions; but the choice to leave open the possibility that human beings are more than we think they are. It is about taking the existential stance that our capacity for reason reflects something fundamental about the universe (not a convenient instinct) and that experience can access facts about reality (a relation versus alienation). These are two ideas that lead me away from atheism although I did not realize so at first.
I cry myself to sleep with my atomic tears every night because I am merely electro-chemical reactions, such depress, much wow :'(