RE: Answers needed
June 27, 2015 at 4:16 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2015 at 4:49 pm by MJ the Skeptical.)
(June 25, 2015 at 9:59 pm)Louis Chérubin Wrote: Hi everyone!
I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post this, but I'd really appreciate some answers to some/all of the following questions. I'm interested in how an average atheist thinks about these topics. It would be great if you could give some explanation for your answers. I'm coming from a protestant worldview.
1. Does God exist?
2. Where did the universe come from?
3. Does my life have a purpose?
4. Why do people suffer?
5. Is there life after death?
6. Can I distinguish right from wrong?
7. Can people know truth?
Sorry for being point form.
1) Which one? if anything none of them seem to be more than mythology.
2) Why does it have to come from somewhere? Why couldn't it just always be here in some form?
3) Purpose is self-imposed by sentient beings, I can't tell you your purpose or if your life has any.
4) Neurological systems in the brain, without a complex brain suffering is not possible.
5) That kind of defeats the meaning of death doesn't it? if you think humans survive their death, then what else survives it's death? no life seems to do such a thing.
6) I don't know, can you? moral agents with empathy can. Just like the purpose question, We can't answer this for you, it's something you either can distinguish or you can't.
7) This is gibberish, know truth about what, it's a vague and open-ended question
If the hypothetical idea of an afterlife means more to you than the objectively true reality we all share, then you deserve no respect.