RE: Is it true that there is no absolute morality?
February 17, 2017 at 2:38 pm
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2017 at 2:46 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Neo-Scholastic [/quote Wrote:Nevertheless, based on the intensity and earnestness of my searching for meaning within that paradigm I feel fairly confident saying that atheism leads inexorably towards nihilism, a self-defeating philosophy that can be maintained only by willfully ignoring its own irrationality.Is the confidence you hold in your own failure to find meaning a reliable indicator of truth? Since when? You failed to find god as well, in your story above......and yet......
Quote:I know others disagree but I truly believe that many many atheists simply have not fully examined their own beliefs and what they necessarily entail. They are like I was, only in reverse, clinging to the idea that I was a Christian while denying everything it implied."Their own beliefs"...lol, hey..maybe, maybe they hold some other position on some other issue that leads inexorably to nihilism...it simply doesn't follow from not believing in gods..which is all.....-all- that atheism entails.
Just because -you- have connected gods to meaning, and can't find meaning anywhere but gods asshole...doesn't mean that I do, or can't. You might disagree with what I find meaning in, or how I derive my sense of meaning...but it's plainly fucking ridiculous to pretend that it doesn't or can't exist, or that if I don't reach way up into the divine colon whatever I derive meaning from is just..you know..illogical and stuff.
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