Christians (or other similar believers) believe that without God, life is meaningless. In other words, atheists have a shitty existence that is devoid of meaning because we don't believe we are created in the image of a sociopathic attention-whore (I'm not sure if they would word it exactly like that). But what kind of meaning is that? To believe that the only meaning is found in 1). believing in an invisible being that can't be proven to exist 2). worship it and 3). obey its laws (i.e. obey whatever you believe it wants you to do). And of course the cherry on the sundae is that God has an infinite love for everyone, even those He casts into hell and/or punishes with AIDs *rolls eyes*
...and with all this meaningful existing that Christians believe they are involved in, it is the atheists that are left out!
[What's funny are those goofy atheists that wishes God was real, but are just slightly too logical to believe but not logical enough to realize that such a thing would make existence much worse (for obvious reasons like hell and having to worship an invisible attention whore for all of eternity). I guess these atheists are between a rock and a hard place.]
The point here is that I fail to understand how God somehow makes life meaningful. Being an objectified pawn is not very meaningful in my book. No, atheism doesn't hand people false-hope for a crappy afterlife (as already mentioned) or some "divine purpose" (to feed God's ego), but isn't it important for people to come to conclusions about purpose/meaning on their own? I suppose a Christian would see meaning in such a worldview (as an atheist I obviously don't). But I believe that to leave questions of meaning untouched detracts from a meaningful existence more than anything. An atheist can find meaning in life merely by being open to think about meaning. If your brain automatically concludes "God", then it shuts itself off to thinking about the meaning of life.
So if you're a Christian, and feel as if life is meaningless, try seeing the world as if the atheist's view is correct. The conclusions you will come to will be very different (and probably much more thought-out).
...and with all this meaningful existing that Christians believe they are involved in, it is the atheists that are left out!
[What's funny are those goofy atheists that wishes God was real, but are just slightly too logical to believe but not logical enough to realize that such a thing would make existence much worse (for obvious reasons like hell and having to worship an invisible attention whore for all of eternity). I guess these atheists are between a rock and a hard place.]
The point here is that I fail to understand how God somehow makes life meaningful. Being an objectified pawn is not very meaningful in my book. No, atheism doesn't hand people false-hope for a crappy afterlife (as already mentioned) or some "divine purpose" (to feed God's ego), but isn't it important for people to come to conclusions about purpose/meaning on their own? I suppose a Christian would see meaning in such a worldview (as an atheist I obviously don't). But I believe that to leave questions of meaning untouched detracts from a meaningful existence more than anything. An atheist can find meaning in life merely by being open to think about meaning. If your brain automatically concludes "God", then it shuts itself off to thinking about the meaning of life.
So if you're a Christian, and feel as if life is meaningless, try seeing the world as if the atheist's view is correct. The conclusions you will come to will be very different (and probably much more thought-out).
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