RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 22, 2016 at 9:48 am
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2016 at 9:56 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 21, 2016 at 1:49 pm)InquiringMind Wrote: And if life is meaningless anyway, then why does it matter whether a person's sense of meaning is based on fact or fiction?
For all of the same reasons that it would matter -regardless- of whether or not a persons sense of meaning is based on fact or fiction, and regardless of whether or not that meaning is objective or subjective.
Or not.
If, for example..you think it matters whether or not a person is compelled to human sacrifice......it doesn't matter whether or not there is meaning to life, objective or subjective...or whether or not this persons compelling interest is fact or fiction. You either think that this makes whatever they take their sense of meaning from to be abhorrent, or you do not. I don't see why, in the op q, one question is thought to be relevant with regards to an appraisal of the other (or that the secondary questions are, themselves, representative of what we are attempting to explore with their use). I know, I know, we say that there's no such thing as a bad question.....but that's not really true, lol.
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