RE: Critical thinker, skeptical about atheism.
December 19, 2014 at 6:41 pm
(This post was last modified: December 19, 2014 at 6:45 pm by Antikytherian95.)
Thank you for the replies, I'm in a different timezone so was asleep as 4 pages of posts popped up in this thread, obviously I won't be able to address each post since it would be prohibitively time consuming.
Some of the replies are quite thoughtful and I thank you for that,
at the end of the day we all have a desire for fulfillment in this life, and I believe that's why atheism is such a minority belief system in our world,
it leaves one empty, because it has no answers for the most basic questions, and who wants to live an Empty existence,
wondering what the point of getting up in the morning is, if one lives a meaningless life that ends in a hole in the ground,
some will say, "There is no meaning to life, but you can just use your imagination to make one up", but thats living a delusion.
And so we will always have religion it seems to me, since the alternative is a despair,
even if its veiled in a kind of "positive denial", that everything is OK with the world,
despite it being completely meaningless and empty, seems like an oxymoron to me.
Oh and a little off topic, amazing inexplicable phenomena in this world, backed up by incredible discoveries in Paranormal Psychology, certainly reinforce the validity of religion as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eg9qY_7qvg
Some of the replies are quite thoughtful and I thank you for that,
at the end of the day we all have a desire for fulfillment in this life, and I believe that's why atheism is such a minority belief system in our world,
it leaves one empty, because it has no answers for the most basic questions, and who wants to live an Empty existence,
wondering what the point of getting up in the morning is, if one lives a meaningless life that ends in a hole in the ground,
some will say, "There is no meaning to life, but you can just use your imagination to make one up", but thats living a delusion.
And so we will always have religion it seems to me, since the alternative is a despair,
even if its veiled in a kind of "positive denial", that everything is OK with the world,
despite it being completely meaningless and empty, seems like an oxymoron to me.
Oh and a little off topic, amazing inexplicable phenomena in this world, backed up by incredible discoveries in Paranormal Psychology, certainly reinforce the validity of religion as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eg9qY_7qvg
