RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 22, 2016 at 5:58 pm
(September 22, 2016 at 5:10 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I think my comment on a separate thread is relevant:
A non-believer can feel proximate meaning and find a local sense of purpose in things such as their work, community, and family. Perhaps that is enough for some. I wish you well. At the same time atheism precludes any possibility of ultimate purpose or significance – “All we are is dust in the wind” etc. etc. A secular sense of purpose is tied to having some external legacy or achievement to show for your life whereas a believer feels assured that their life matters, somehow, even if they left no lasting legacy (and for most folks what legacy truly lasts for very long). For Christians at least, they can feel significant not because of anything they did but because they know that by His Grace alone God loves them. One line from a hymn simply expresses this notion and goes “Nothing in my hand I bring / only to the Cross I cling.”
I don't see how it is. It's a bunch of words.
I see the words by His Grace alone God loves them, but what the fuck does that mean, how is that supposed to console me. You mentioned some hymn. Seriously? Just... I give you the act of doing something with your life, enjoying it as a result and that as a source of meaning and happiness, and you give me a bunch of fucking words that don't even mean anything? How is an imaginary idea supposed to give me meaning? You can't show me your God. You're a crazy person. You believe in something without evidence. You believe it because you "feel" it. You partake in insanity, my friend. Willingly so. I prefer to remain sane.
