(August 9, 2010 at 7:21 am)rybak303 Wrote: If God does not exist, if there is no eternal spiritual realm beyond the temporal material realm where reason and emotion have their ultimate foundations what meaning does love have? In an atheist worldview where love has no spiritual/non-material foundations what is the difference between the love of a man for his wife and a couple of pigs mating? If love only exists in a material form and is just a series of reactions of chemicals in our brain than what is the difference between a parent's for their child and a junkie getting high?
Very simple to answer.
Love is the same for us as it is for religious people. I.E Chemical reactions in the brain responding to stimuli.
The only difference is we don’t need to dress it up and pretend that the great invisible sky wizard did it.
"A man who keeps one eye on the past is blind in one eye. A man who ignores the past is blind in both."
