RE: Atheism and the meaning of life - what drives you?
September 9, 2021 at 4:07 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2021 at 4:08 pm by Fake Messiah.)
What gives me meaning in life? Trying not to masturbate so that Saint Peter lets me through the gates of Heaven. Oh, wait! That's the Christian meaning in life.
What gives me as an atheist meaning in life is:
What gives me as an atheist meaning in life is:
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"