(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. Not so far as we can tell, there is absolutely no evidence that suggests that a god, any god, exists in reality. Rational people do not believe things for which no evidence exists.
2. It began with the Big Bang, what came before that, we don't know. Not knowing something is not license to just make something up.
3. Not inherently but you're free to assign it some purpose if it makes you feel better.
4. Because that's reality. Everything suffers to some extent, from the smallest insect to the largest animal. Welcome to life.
5. Not so far as we can tell. Just being uncomfortable with dying doesn't mean you get to make up an arbitrary afterlife.
6. Right and wrong and morality are subjective things that exist on the societal level. People decide collectively what's right and wrong within their social group.
7. Define 'truth'. Do you mean fact? Certainly then, we can look at objective evidence and determine what is actually true about the world around us. If you mean something different, you'll have to be more clear.
There is nothing demonstrably true that religion can provide mankind that cannot be achieved as well or better through secular means.
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