RE: what do christians (and people in general) mean by "feeling empty inside"?
April 16, 2013 at 9:23 am
(April 16, 2013 at 8:23 am)ChadWooters Wrote: From a existentialist point of view, foregoing belief in God comes at great cost. In the absence of God the universe is absurd, life becomes an empty gesture, relationships are reduced to power dynamics, and the qualitative content of mental life gets dismissed. When you actually think about it, that's a pretty big hole that God fills and a huge lose when we don't let him.
Foregoing the belief in God does not mean that life becomes an empty gesture. As summer said, the universe just is, but that does not diminish life in my eyes. It just means that we as humans bear the responsibility for making the most of life, and that life is only worth what we deem it to be worth.
Honestly, I think that when religious people mention the "emptiness" without god, they are simply preying on people's desires for life to have some sort of intrinsic value beyond what we determine it to have.
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
