RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 21, 2016 at 7:00 pm
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2016 at 7:00 pm by SenpaiNoticeMeYouBlindShmuck.)
What's the difference? If life is meaningless and there is no hereafter you have the freedom to decide how you'd like to spend the here and now and make the most of it.
If you follow a religion you're following not your own will, but that of whatever Bronze Age Sheepherder/Child Molester/Georgian con-man wrote the book in question. If that's how you want to spend your time like Stimbo said go for it, I just don't see how one can get satisfaction from that when you know all the promises are empty and it's not really doing any good.
There's also the not too small a matter of all the horrific and depraved acts the religious are doing across the world, shall we quietly nod meekly alongside the terrorists and child molesters or tell them where to get off?
If you follow a religion you're following not your own will, but that of whatever Bronze Age Sheepherder/Child Molester/Georgian con-man wrote the book in question. If that's how you want to spend your time like Stimbo said go for it, I just don't see how one can get satisfaction from that when you know all the promises are empty and it's not really doing any good.
There's also the not too small a matter of all the horrific and depraved acts the religious are doing across the world, shall we quietly nod meekly alongside the terrorists and child molesters or tell them where to get off?
