RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 21, 2016 at 7:46 pm
(September 21, 2016 at 7:06 pm)InquiringMind Wrote:(September 21, 2016 at 4:05 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: OP, if you're happy being a theist then be a theist, fantasy delusion or not. Don't insinuate that non believers (how ever I/they define themselves) lives don't have meaning or are not happy just because you can't find any in yours. Don't expect to have me find it for you.
I'm not a theist, and I don't intend to be one. Atheists are usually pretty hard on religion, and I was trying to discuss the fact that religious belief does have the advantage of automatically giving individuals a sense of meaning, and I was exploring the possibility that that may not be a bad thing.
It's a sense of meaning in the same way that going round in circles is a sense of direction.
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.'
