(May 3, 2013 at 5:06 am)Luminox Wrote: Atheists are more likely to commit suicide, according to a new scientific study.
Researchers noticed that those who had no religious connection had fewer reasons to live and fewer moral objections to suicide.
Warren Nunn names two reasons:
1. The theory of evolution: "(...) as the evolution-as-fact dogma has reached saturation point in education and the public arena, so suicide has increased exponentially throughout the world [citation needed]. (...) What would it [your life] ultimately matter, if we are all just reorganized pond scum destined to be, at best, recycled as fertilizer, with neither hope beyond the grave, nor any accountability to our Maker?"
2. The properties of atheism: "Atheism is a journey without a destination, a body without a soul, a religion without reason, life without meaning, a faith without hope, and a universe without God. (...) Atheism is existentially unfulfilling."
In other words:
Evolution ('you’re-just-a-bag-of-chemicals paradigm') leads to atheism, which leads to secularism, which leads to increased levels of suicide.
Mr. Nunn ends the article with a message:
"In contrast to the purposelessness of evolution, those who call the Lord Jesus Christ their personal saviour have a purpose for living—they know they are “fearfully and wonderfully made”[Psalm 139:14]."
(Nunn, W. (01/03/2013), "Evolution and suicide", http://creation.com/evolution-and-suicide)
Your thoughts on this?
PS: The text between square brackets is added by me.
To put it bluntly I think it just means atheists spend less years at the end of their lives lying in a hospital bed doped on morphine suffering with incontinence dying of several types of cancer, unless the study is showing it's younger people who are committing suicide.
But also I would say if you're religious you have less reasons to live, less reasons to accept medical care at least, if you die and you have been good you get to go to an eternal theme park in the sky where at least in Islam you are surrounded by beautiful women and so on
'We love death more than you love life' is a common theme among Islamic extremists.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
