RE: Atheists life motive
May 2, 2014 at 1:44 am
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2014 at 1:47 am by Freedom of thought.)
(May 1, 2014 at 12:19 pm)Jason_ab Wrote: I have to say it again. What a great forum. Lots of really smart people gathered here. It's the first time I find that every single reply to a thread is worth pondering.
I keep a journal (Jim Rohn style) and have written more or less all your answers in it for future thinking fuel.
I will ask your opinion about children. Have you tought your children that there is no such thing as God?
Do children that have no notion of God hardwired in their brains have any problem coping with human mortality?
I don't have any children, and if I did I wouldn't force any views (or non views) on them. I would tell them about all of the different religions, and how humans were prone to creating religious narratives throughout the ages. If you tell a child that they will escape death, they will never learn how to deal with death. Religion is a means of trying to avoid death, instead of trying to come to terms with our own mortality and inevitable deaths. There's some things you don't want to tell children, like how they will one day die like everyone else, or about the ferociousness of nature, like a lion tearing apart a zebra. Learning how things really are and learning how to cope with the ugly parts of life is apart of growing up, and becoming a stronger person. If you shield children from death, and the horrors of the world, they will never grow up. But I don't think death is that bad really, when you are dead you have nothing to be afraid of, fear of death is normal, but it is irrational. Every life comes with a death sentence, that's how the life cycle works. If no one died the Earth would be vastly overpopulated. Death is a means for life to work. No death no life, no life no death.
