RE: Is atheism a liberating and good experience?
December 10, 2012 at 9:43 am
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2012 at 9:46 am by Faith No More.)
LastPoet Wrote:It has nothing to do with atheists. "Happiness" doesn't have a formula or a general panacea that miraculously works. Its rather subjective.
True, but as an atheist, I cannot give him any guidance beyond telling him to figure it out for himself. As a Christian, I could tell him to seek god, because that is what my beliefs dictate. That was my point.
thesummerqueen Wrote:I only said so, Faith, because he didn't seem terribly impressed with the suggestions that were given to him.
I understand, and believe me, I am just as frustrated with his dismissals of every idea put forth. My point was that he seems to me to be unrealistically intent on receiving a magic recipe for living happily without god, rather than being intent on staying depressed.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
