RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 21, 2016 at 3:59 pm
(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?
It all depends on how you want to spend your threescore-and-ten. If you want to look back on everything you've done and think "you know what, I've fucking wasted most of it on my knees in front of a stupid idol", knock yourself out. It's said that the saddest phrase in the English language is "if only..."
If that's what you want on your tombstone, then hey - this was your life.
On the other hand, WhatsTheHarm.net lists accounts of real damage done by this stuff. So to quote Stephen Fry: "Religion - shit it".
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
