(January 28, 2016 at 7:09 am)robvalue Wrote: But what is the point of life if we don't have an invisible buddy who hides in another dimension and does nothing? I just don't think I'm ready to face that possibility.
What is the point of nipples on men? What is the point of an appendix? What is the point of ABBA?
Thheeee loint of nall uv thus iz thut their iz nune ultea-mate-ly. Live iz wut u meek ut. <------That is what religion does to human thought, it takes mundane reality and twists it to comic book interpretations.
Theists cant understand that the reason they come to these conclusions is literally really nothing more than "if you want to believe a false claim as fact badly enough, you will."
The reality is, "The point of all this is that there is none ultimately. Life is what you make it." The more humans seek natural explanations and the less we gap fill with fantasy, the more accurate our knowledge is and we have a better understanding of reality.