Apart from our biological imperative, we give our lives meaning ourselves. Not some mythical being that will slap us or reward us according to it's rather schizophrenic will.
You say you're agnostic, but you come across, at least in your initial post, exactly as I've seen many fundamentalist Christians do. I've seen this sort of statement on boards such as Rapture Ready and others, where people wonder why they should bother getting an education, or a job, if they're just going to die and go to heaven.
The world is as we have made it. Many of us need an education and a job to get through it, not only to benefit ourselves but those around us, whether family or community.
It's many of the religious who want to stop people becoming educated, thereby having hordes of unthinking sheep to follow them.
You hate atheism? Frankly, I don't give a rat's arse.
Atheism is the rejection of god claims.
You say you're agnostic, but you come across, at least in your initial post, exactly as I've seen many fundamentalist Christians do. I've seen this sort of statement on boards such as Rapture Ready and others, where people wonder why they should bother getting an education, or a job, if they're just going to die and go to heaven.
The world is as we have made it. Many of us need an education and a job to get through it, not only to benefit ourselves but those around us, whether family or community.
It's many of the religious who want to stop people becoming educated, thereby having hordes of unthinking sheep to follow them.
You hate atheism? Frankly, I don't give a rat's arse.
Atheism is the rejection of god claims.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
