RE: An atheists guide to reality
March 2, 2014 at 4:14 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2014 at 4:16 pm by Ryantology.)
The only difference between atheist 'nihilism' and the Christian idea of objective meaning to life is the fact that Christians are just making up the latter in fear of the former. It is symptomatic of people who lack the capacity for independent thought. You need your sky daddy to define your meaning for you because you lack the capacity to do it for yourself. You need your sky daddy to serve as your conscience because you have none of your own. You need your sky daddy to describe the world around you because you are too lazy and stupid to figure it out for yourself.
The Christian idea of 'objective meaning' applies only to mindless objects. Fridges have 'objective meaning', they exist to keep things cold. Light bulbs have 'objective meaning'. Bathtubs and dinner plates and ballpoint pens and dildoes have 'objective meaning'. A self-determining individual like a human has no 'objective meaning'. Remove the 'self-determining', and you're just a slave or a mindless piece of biological machinery. It is not a coincidence that this is precisely the sort of thinking the Christian religion promotes.
Enjoy the chains you've placed upon yourself if that's what turns you on, but don't insult our intelligence by insisting we put them on, too.
The Christian idea of 'objective meaning' applies only to mindless objects. Fridges have 'objective meaning', they exist to keep things cold. Light bulbs have 'objective meaning'. Bathtubs and dinner plates and ballpoint pens and dildoes have 'objective meaning'. A self-determining individual like a human has no 'objective meaning'. Remove the 'self-determining', and you're just a slave or a mindless piece of biological machinery. It is not a coincidence that this is precisely the sort of thinking the Christian religion promotes.
Enjoy the chains you've placed upon yourself if that's what turns you on, but don't insult our intelligence by insisting we put them on, too.