(April 6, 2019 at 2:53 pm)joe90 Wrote: Dear Atheists,
What's your point of living? You're all eventually going to die. When you die, there will be no afterlife. It's almost as if you never existed in the first place because you'll forget you'll ever existed, thus you'll forget about anything that made you happy in life and any good moments in life. You can "make the best of it" while you're "here on Earth" for these "rare 80 [only if you're lucky] years", but in the end it won't matter. Most people won't leave behind a legacy, and even if you left one behind, it won't last long. Even famous luminaries like Michael Jackson or Elvis Presley will be forgotten sooner than later. Your contributions to humanity won't matter either because humanity will end, and life on Earth will be wiped out by a meteor in a few centuries from now or even sooner. If that doesn't happen, humans will go extinct anyway by robots.
I am one of those atheists (a minority, to be sure) who is dissatisfied with atheism. In fact, I live my life a step above nihilism. As an atheist, I find the prospect of an afterlife to be absolutely enthralling and annihilation at my death to be utterly depressing! As a former Catholic, my heart was broken with the recent fire at Notre Dame.
But, as an atheist, my biggest problem with religion and religious faith is simply that such is not true. As such, religion takes a bad situation (one's mortality) and makes such even worse. Notre Dame is absolutely beautiful, and the Catholic Mass (especially, the traditional Tridentine Mass) is wonderfully transcendent. But, it's "less real" than a trip to Disney World, and in the end, I think that I would rather go to the Magic Kingdom than Notre Dame, although, I do hope to go there someday when they are done rebuilding. No doubt modern science and engineering, in the restoration, will incorporate modern fire detection and suppression systems into the Cathedral!
