Too often, religious folks will assert that without their god you can have no objective meaning to life, nor absolute morals, that there's no value in anything not god-given. We've seen it more than a few times lately here, and it leads me to a simple pair of questions that I'd like anyone inclined to respecting that argument to answer:
1. Is there somewhere, in your opinion, where objective morals, meaning, what have you, can come from that isn't a god?
If the answer is yes, your argument is dead in the water. If you answer no, then replace "objective meaning" with "meaning from a god," because that's what you're actually talking about, and try the argument again: "You can't have meaning from a god, without god." It's circular.
2. How do you intend to demonstrate that objective meaning is necessary? Because without that, you have no argument for god at all.
1. Is there somewhere, in your opinion, where objective morals, meaning, what have you, can come from that isn't a god?
If the answer is yes, your argument is dead in the water. If you answer no, then replace "objective meaning" with "meaning from a god," because that's what you're actually talking about, and try the argument again: "You can't have meaning from a god, without god." It's circular.
2. How do you intend to demonstrate that objective meaning is necessary? Because without that, you have no argument for god at all.
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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