(March 11, 2015 at 7:18 pm)IATIA Wrote:(March 10, 2015 at 10:35 am)SteveII Wrote: I was wondering what your collective response is to the conclusion that atheism leads to nihilism.IMHO, it does open the door. It is then one's choice to step through or not.
Why doesn't theism open the door to nihilism? Theists like to claim we're supposed to comply with an objective standard that we don't make up ourselves. We don't get to vote on it. We don't have to agree with it. It doesn't have to be good for us. There doesn't have to be anything good about it.
If that isn't nihilism, what is?
And how does having this code dictated by an invisible eccentric make it "objective"?