RE: Atheist struggling to answer a question i often propose to myself
August 25, 2017 at 11:33 am
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2017 at 11:37 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 25, 2017 at 10:54 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: As for whether belief in God is necessary, I would say probably not for everyday living and scientific inquires about natural phenomena. However, taking a stand is a necessary condition for the fundamental things that I think really matter in life such as values, meaning, and purpose.
The god issue is demonstrably irrelevant to all three. So what If there isn't god-value, god-meaning, or god-purpose? That doesn't diminish, affect, alter, or eliminate what value does exist, what meaning does exist, and what purpose does exist.
You are only expressing, here, your dissatisfaction with god-absent value, meaning, or purpose...that's a you problem, not a logical problem. I'm not suffering under the same dissatisfaction. The contention that, if there is no god-meaning..then there is no meaning (rinse and repeat with the rest)..would be a non sequitur. So much for god's purported necessity.
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