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If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?

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If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 21, 2016 at 2:35 pm
(September 21, 2016 at 2:30 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:
(September 21, 2016 at 1:59 pm)InquiringMind Wrote: If the truth is that life is meaningless, then any meaning I assign to life is going to be fictional.  So if I do establish my own fictional meaning in life (and it will inevitably be fictional) then why is that more noble and enlightened than someone whose meaning comes from a fictional traditional religion, like Islam or Christianity?

Because it's your own, you made it, and you aren't hiding behind anyone else's concepts or excuses.

If you were to bring God the gift of your life, do you think he'd be more pleased with golden authenticity or a plastic copy?

Emphasis mine


Fucking slave mentality, that is.
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If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?

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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion? - by Excited Penguin - September 21, 2016 at 2:35 pm
RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion? - by deleteduser12345 - September 21, 2016 at 2:11 pm

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