(June 19, 2013 at 3:52 pm)littleendian Wrote: Because if there's a creator then there must be some kind of purpose. If there's no creator then everything that's going on, all the hardships of life, at end of the day is all just a bunch of stuff that happened for no reason. That's frightening, and belief in a creator gives (false) comfort.
Factoring in a creator your outlook becomes reasonably (because you have reasoned it to be so) positive rather than, as you say, neither good nor bad.
Faith gives me the potential to get more out of life than life without it.
