(February 8, 2015 at 8:53 am)Nell Wrote: [...] You built a sandcastle? What's the point?[...]
Hmmm.... I'm sorry, but what does a religious person get for building a sandcastle? Is there some passage in a holy book, that says "Blessed are the sandcastle makers, for god almighty can't get enough of the damn things and will reunite righteous people with their poorly sculpted piles of wet dirt in heaven"?
Or perhaps religious people don't get involved in any endeavors, that don't specifically assist in getting into paradise? Has every single sandcastle I've seen been made by atheists?
Sandcastles - as well as the majority of activities we occupy ourselves with, like art and music - are pointless, regardless of your religious views. If you used to have fun wasting time, while you thought Jesus was watching, why can't you enjoy the same activity, without that belief? In fact - now you should be enjoying it even more, because you don't have to worry about god's plan for you and whether or not you should be in church right now, repenting for sins, rather than at the beach, looking at semi-naked people.
And even more things are pointless, or counter-productive if you actually believe in afterlife. Why waste time preparing healthy food, or wear seat-belts, if that's only going to postpone your meeting with god and eternity in heaven?
To quote "philosophers" from the 80's:
"Life's what you make it". (Talk Talk)
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
