Does atheism inspire people?

[StatCrux]

..this is part and parcel of your "Bully boy" attitude, your elitism and the perpetuation of YOU being "Special" in your own eyes.

Bully boy?? Where did that spring from? I can post numerous abusive posts by you to me, I've only ever been polite to you. hock:

[KichigaiNeko]

Statcrux = Troll?

[Paul the Human]

Statcrux = Troll?

Statcrux = Ignore list.

[Zen Badger]

Yes I have.

Now are you going to answer the question?

Yes, the answer to the question is no. That doesn't show us anything though, it hasn't proved or disproved anything, a pointless question really.

It is right to the point child.

Without any substantive evidence for your god anything you have no argument at all.

You can crap on as much as you like about religion being inspirational etc,etc,etc.

It is a complete waste of time until you can back it up.

[StatCrux]

Statcrux = Troll?

How on earth did you reach that conclusion? hock:

First you try abuse then if that fails you just say I'm a troll

[Welsh cake]

If you say life has "no meaning" objective or otherwise, the original argument was "no meaning" objective or subjective was not mentioned.

I couldn't care less about what was originally discussed, I'm only interested in what is currently being discussed.

If you then "believe" your own meaning that is faith in your own self admittedly delusion. Just stick with this, can you have meaning and no meaning at the same time? Yes or No?

Subjectively or Objectively?

Because atheists "create" their own meaning for life (as attested to in this thread) if they believe this created meaning, that is faith.

That's not faith. Justifying your own life, your own existence, via secular means without all the religious garbage is NOT faith. Choosing a course of action, planning, finding a career, and/or deciding what one is going to do with their life is not blind hope. Its a series of conscious decisions being made and acting upon them. How many times must you be told?

You replace belief in God with belief in your own created meaning, essentially you place yourself in the position of God, precisely what the Lucifer story warns us of doing. Christians admit they have faith, atheists won't admit it.

Let's play devil's advocate.

I will accept for sake of argument your god is real and true meaning of life.

1. What meaning does god provide to our lives that secular non-religious sources cannot also provide?
2. Why do theists, like atheists, still take their own lives/commit suicide?

[KichigaiNeko]

Statcrux = Troll?

Statcrux = Ignore list.

Same here... replies seem infantile and ill-conceived. Should one disagree one just gets ignored...this is all over the board so.......

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[StatCrux]

I never said that evolution is an alternative to creation,

It gives an alternative to a creation scenario.

that's what it looks like to me..

[fuckass365]

I never said that evolution is an alternative to creation,

[quote='Mosrhun']
It gives an alternative to a creation scenario.

that's what it looks like to me..

I elaborated on what I meant, if it came across that way then my mistake. Please don't quote out of context.

[Darwinian]

Simple really. The reason why there is so much art, literature, architecture, paintings, sculptures etc. etc. dedicated to religion over the past several centuries is that most of these works were commissioned by the most powerful and certainly wealthy organisations of the time, i.e. The Church.

Less to do with religion and more to do with the desires of the people with the money!