RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 22, 2016 at 10:34 am
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2016 at 10:38 am by Full Circle.)
Only after I discarded the trappings of religion did my life become truly meaningful. It gained a sense of urgency. Once you come to grips that there is no “do over” you realize that loving and caring here and now is everything.
Those small gestures of kindness, sympathy and empathy take on a much greater and deeper meaning. Helping your neighbor, friend, family member move their stuff across town for example is the highest calling. Making other people’s lives a bit easier has more meaning as an atheist than to those who subscribe that a god will reward them in an afterlife.
I don’t pass up the chance to help and serve others and this gives my life a deep sense of meaning. I also contribute to the knowledge base of understanding with marine research, adding to the scientific library for others to use gives me great satisfaction, it is something greater than myself. Find what that is for you and embrace it.
Those small gestures of kindness, sympathy and empathy take on a much greater and deeper meaning. Helping your neighbor, friend, family member move their stuff across town for example is the highest calling. Making other people’s lives a bit easier has more meaning as an atheist than to those who subscribe that a god will reward them in an afterlife.
I don’t pass up the chance to help and serve others and this gives my life a deep sense of meaning. I also contribute to the knowledge base of understanding with marine research, adding to the scientific library for others to use gives me great satisfaction, it is something greater than myself. Find what that is for you and embrace it.
"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's." - Mark Twain in Eruption
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's." - Mark Twain in Eruption
