(April 9, 2015 at 10:42 pm)Iroscato Wrote: And yet, the question remains...what if you are wrong? You will have wasted all that effort and time for nothing, when you could have been focused on making the real world a better place both for you and others.
The dignity of a life enlightened by religion is higher than that of an atheist life; however, attaining that dignity indeed takes time and effort, and an atheist is unable even to recognize that his life is subpar. His higher faculties are dulled by the very self-contempt that you have amply demonstrated here in the discussion of differences between man and animals above. His incentives toward "making the real world a better place both for him and others" are negated by his own understanding of the "world," "himself," and "others" as hopelessly transient.
