(April 5, 2017 at 9:44 am)MysticKnight Wrote:(April 5, 2017 at 3:17 am)Alex K Wrote: I've never seen a Theist really justify love or why they should strive for anything meaningful.
At least we try, Atheists don't even try.
MK,
I've always respected you because you've, for the most part, been one of the more pleasant theists on these boards, but this comment by you is just wrong. You have seen me post my agonizing story about my oldest on here before. About how my heart breaks daily because she has been parentally alienated from me. Still is to this day, two and a half years later.
If you cannot deduce the LOVE I have for a child I cannot get closure from, because she is still living and yet there is no contact, you don't need religion. You need empathy and compassion. And you need to learn to read and pay more attention.
Many parents are atheists. Just look at these forums. If you believe for one minute that not a single one of us is capable of demonstrating love, you my friend are more dimwitted than LR.
We do way more than try. Our love for anyone in our lives is fully justified in how we treat those loved ones and in how we feel and care about them.
At least we don't buy into the bullshit of a "loving" god who evidently has no problems with wiping out an entire population of the beings he put on earth in the first place.
There's no "justifying" that kind of love.
Disclaimer: I am only responsible for what I say, not what you choose to understand.
