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What is the Purpose?

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What is the Purpose?
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RE: What is the Purpose?
May 3, 2013 at 6:35 pm
I have read the replies from both Mystic and Chad and I still fail to see what percieved purpose religion brings.

Mystic, it seems to me that everything you describe can be worked for and achieved just as easily without a god.

Chad, if loving god and spreading his disease...uh...I mean "word"...is the purpose, I don't really see how that adds anything to ones life beyond having something to love which is just as easily fulfilled with a partner and family.

What I am really asking is, why is an atheistic existence viewed as purposeless by theists? What goal, other than getting to heaven, does religion offer in day-to-day life that is better/nobeler/more desireable than life minus religion?
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." -Einstein
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What is the Purpose? - by Baalzebutt - May 3, 2013 at 1:11 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Minimalist - May 3, 2013 at 1:19 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by goodnews - May 3, 2013 at 1:27 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Baalzebutt - May 3, 2013 at 1:41 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Minimalist - May 3, 2013 at 1:35 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Whateverist - May 3, 2013 at 1:45 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Tonus - May 3, 2013 at 1:57 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 3, 2013 at 3:29 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Baalzebutt - May 3, 2013 at 4:25 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 3, 2013 at 5:38 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by FifthElement - May 4, 2013 at 9:18 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Whateverist - May 3, 2013 at 6:03 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 3, 2013 at 6:21 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 3, 2013 at 7:55 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Whateverist - May 3, 2013 at 9:15 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by MysticKnight - May 3, 2013 at 9:30 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Whateverist - May 3, 2013 at 9:50 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 3, 2013 at 11:19 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Whateverist - May 4, 2013 at 12:43 am
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Lord Privy Seal - May 4, 2013 at 10:27 am
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 4, 2013 at 4:05 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Lord Privy Seal - May 4, 2013 at 7:16 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 5, 2013 at 12:38 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by wwjs - May 4, 2013 at 7:24 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 4, 2013 at 10:22 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by MysticKnight - May 3, 2013 at 5:34 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Joel - May 3, 2013 at 6:30 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Baalzebutt - May 3, 2013 at 6:35 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 3, 2013 at 7:55 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 3, 2013 at 8:32 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by MysticKnight - May 3, 2013 at 8:05 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by MysticKnight - May 3, 2013 at 10:00 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 3, 2013 at 10:04 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Whateverist - May 3, 2013 at 10:22 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 4, 2013 at 3:45 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by wwjs - May 4, 2013 at 3:50 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by purplepurpose - May 4, 2013 at 5:31 am
RE: What is the Purpose? - by CleanShavenJesus - May 4, 2013 at 3:53 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Joel - May 4, 2013 at 7:29 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by cneron - May 5, 2013 at 1:09 am
Re: RE: What is the Purpose? - by frz - May 5, 2013 at 12:46 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 5, 2013 at 2:57 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Simon Moon - May 5, 2013 at 3:00 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 5, 2013 at 3:18 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 6, 2013 at 5:39 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 6, 2013 at 6:28 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Gabriel Syme - May 6, 2013 at 9:24 am
RE: What is the Purpose? - by pocaracas - May 6, 2013 at 9:53 am
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Whateverist - May 6, 2013 at 9:56 am
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Gabriel Syme - May 6, 2013 at 10:33 am
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Whateverist - May 6, 2013 at 3:29 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Silver - May 6, 2013 at 5:24 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Faith No More - May 6, 2013 at 5:30 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 6, 2013 at 5:19 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 7, 2013 at 1:12 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 7, 2013 at 5:48 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by pocaracas - May 7, 2013 at 6:32 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 7, 2013 at 9:32 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Minimalist - May 7, 2013 at 1:43 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 7, 2013 at 10:10 pm
RE: What is the Purpose? - by Ryantology - May 7, 2013 at 10:44 pm

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