RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 24, 2016 at 10:27 am
(September 24, 2016 at 1:27 am)Arkilogue Wrote:(September 24, 2016 at 12:27 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: My life isn't meaningless.
Just because meaning isn't intrinsic doesn't mean it isn't present.
Not to mention that I don't see much meaning in groveling. Indeed, the Abrahamic faiths, and many others as well, stress the unimportance -- meaninglessness -- of this life, and only promise meaning in the next.
I was under the impression that in the Abrahamic religions what you did in this life determined your fate in the next....?
But it's not just "what you do". It doing things in a very specific manner, no matter what it is you wish to do, for fear of losing out in the afterlife. You're right that "what you do in this life" is important to them -- and that "what you do" is obey the religious authorities insofar as what they define as sins.
How meaningful is that existence?
