From what I'm trying to understand, h311inac311 is saying that atheists have nothing to live for because they believe that they will die one day and will not live forever in some eternal world.
This is nonsense because it doesn't mean that just because if something won't have value in the future it doesn't have value now. It's like saying "Why should I eat in this restaurant because one day it will close down", or " Why should I buy this food because it will spoil one day," and so on.
This is nonsense because it doesn't mean that just because if something won't have value in the future it doesn't have value now. It's like saying "Why should I eat in this restaurant because one day it will close down", or " Why should I buy this food because it will spoil one day," and so on.
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"
