The Lie of the True Christian™

[Optimistic Mysanthrope]

For those of you who seemingly have inner peace as atheists, can you explain why and from where you receive it? From yourselves or from society? Just curious.

If I were to reason out a guess, it would be something like this:

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After being confronted with vast sadness, such as the Sandy Hook tragedy, inner peace comes by way of realizing there is no God. It inflates our emotional well being and insulates us from feeling pain by way of "it ultimately doesn't matter anyway, no actual real (only contrived) loss, as everthing is ultimately senseless anyway, and we are all going to die at some point anyway and forever". The inner peace that comes after unimaginable pain and loss can only come from devaluing the meaning of life across the board; to life only being random position of atoms reassembling themselves. When a massive asteroid is headed for earth, the atheist finds great comfort in knowing that at least everyone's else will die too, and this blink of human intelligence will forever be erased from existence, and no intelligence will ever be self aware enough to know we were ever here. That actually is comforting, but in a way that shows life to be ultimately useless, pointless, unnecessary and we must realize sadness is of silly convention when we complain of children dying or rights being violated, as they are figments of our imaginations.

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I get the impression that you haven't actually conversed with many atheists about topics such as this. You might do better to avoid making those kind of presuppositions.

You also can just say " I feel inner peace". But ad hock declarations can be made pragmatically by anyone without the need for a supporting framework.

(Emphasis added)

Yes, I noticed that too