It is often stated that if there was no god, then life has no meaning. For some reason I cannot wrap my head around why God's existence is relevant to whether or not a person's life has meaning. If there were a god, from his vantage point, we are quite insignificant (given the size of the known universe). If Christians disagree with this notion, perhaps they should go look up the definition of important. If everything and anything is important, then nothing is important, including all people.
Christians believe (or the majority seem to) that their lives are the most meaningful in the eyes of God. They get such ideas from church and from the HUMAN MADE book (the Bible). So when looking through the eyes of God the most important think you can do as a person is STOP THINKING for yourself. He gave you free will and a mind to think, he never said anything about using it. It is quite simple, listen to your priest, and read the book written 1,000s of years ago by the only MEN that God thought capable of thinking for themselves. Remember, God does not believe in evolution, he believes in de-evolution. Let me put it another way, God created man with perfection. But that perfection is showing its sign of wear.
If you read the Bible, you will see just how intelligent and PERFECT the people of the time were -- such an advanced knowledge of science and morality. I do wonder why they always talk in metaphor, metaphor so deep we still cannot grasp what it means. Give it time Christians, think hard, for this life has meaning in it. So does your Bible, otherwise your Bible is as worthless as the paper it is printed on, and your life nearly as much. What a gamble.
What is far more shocking, to me, is the fact that someone would be willing to lower the meaning of their life to the simple dichotomy of "good" or "bad," as if those are somehow concrete notions which have always been the same under every civilization which has ever existed. The world is so much more complex and beautiful than that. Also, it seems strange that people believe that their life has a "purpose." Clearly these same people haven't thought of the "purpose" of the life of a tree. Or, if they do, they believe the purpose of the tree is to give humans building materials. Religion is a very self-absorbed ideology. Sad that so many are ensnared by the lies of religion because the Torah, Bible and Koran are all, equally, incapable of explaining the grandeur of the universe in which our planet floats about like a mote of dust.
ReplyDeleteI think your analysis will be extraordinarily weak amongst the general Christian readership. You have already taken the position that evolution is true, which of course it is, but Christians reject this and furthermore, have minimal understanding of evolution. Most believe that modern animals descended from other modern animals. The concept of simple beginnings to complex organisms, is beyond their understanding. Why? Because they also believe that planet is 10,000 years old and that there is evidence of Noah's flood. It is inherently illogical to attempt to free someone from religion by assuming that the science is right. It is a much more multi-faceted process. For each believer, a different model is needed to extricate them from their religious belief system. I think what is most effective is to start out with the position of "if there was a God," you know, allow them to be feel correct in their belief and then gently guide them through the evidence, how we know that evidence, and therefore why their beliefs are wrong. Evolution, I believe, if correctly understood, is undoubtedly the destroyer of all religion. The problem is reaching out to those that (to steal a Christian phrase) "haven't heard the good news."