(February 23, 2017 at 12:53 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(February 22, 2017 at 9:28 pm)Khemikal Wrote: ...nihilism....It has nothing to do with atheism, it does not follow from atheism...atheism....doesn't have a damned thing to say about the meaning of life, whether it has a meaning..or it's value if there is any.
Indeed. It has nothing to to say about the meaning or value of life. But "atheism" isn't a thing. People are atheists. Which means people who have no God. Ergo, people who have no known justification for believing that life has ultimate meaning or life has value. Unless you have one.
No?
Didn't think so.
People who have no God. . . Ergo, people who have no reason not to eat babies, rape children, and stick cactuses up their asses.
Oh wait, there is a reason. . . it just so happens that people (for the most part) don't LIKE doing any of those things. They like getting out of bed, acting like their day matters, trying to get laid and fed, and seeking pleasure.
"Because it's in our nature" is sufficient justification for us to do thing things that are . . . in our nature.
