I have a question for the non-Believers!?

Question

I've read many questions directed at Christians some are insulting some are not, some just curious about their faith..and that's what my question is..curious, not to disrespect anyone's view point believer or non-believer is my goal. My question involves "love". Love for each other, our families, our children and mate. If there is no God, is love nothing more than neurons connecting to synapses and sparking feelings of pleasure, is love just neurotransmitters transmitting from our DNA a sense of "Good". If it is why isn't that found in hallmark cards, Like: "You make my neurons happy through billions of years of evolution"..if that's the truth! Is love something more than that, is it more than sparking neurons? When I look into the face of my children I can honestly say "It's more than that". I know I will spend eternity with them like I know I will see the sun again..I can feel it. I would like to have your views..your thoughts.

Respectfully, your friend

Wow..I am so impressed with the answer's & the honesty on both sides of this issue (my question)

Answer 1

Yes, love is a chemical reaction. We don't say that for the same reason we still speak of sunset and sunrise, despite knowing that the sun is not really moving around the earth. It's the same reason that we say "full moon" despite knowing that the moon is always full and it just reflects different amount of sunlight to earth as it spins around us. Our language hasn't caught up with science, and doesn't necessarily need to since the words we have work well enough to convey the ideas we wish to impart to one another.
When you can stop talking about a full moon, we'll work on Hallmark cards.

Answer 2

I am a believer and I think that this is a great question.

I do not want to spend the rest of my life having faith in happy neurons getting me through. I do not want to spend my eternity as a strand of happy DNA. I feel so blessed to have the love and grace of my Lord Jesus Christ. Knowing that I can sleep at night peacefully assured that my sins are forgiven is an amazing feeling.

I just returned home from church camp where I saw many young people take Christ as their savior and the feeling in my heart as a witness of this is absolutely amazing.

Answer 3

Seems like, yet again, you have answered your own question (or at least attempted to). However, after looking over your other posts, it appears that you don't actually understand how to write a question since almost all of them, like the one above, are actually statements designed to elicit viewpoints that are sympathetic to your own.

For example, your "question" was allegedly directed at non-believers yet, most of your responses are from fellow Christians.

If you genuinely want to know what atheists think about love, try posting the question like this, "Hey atheists, do you think that your experience of love is different than that of believers?" Then don't add a bunch of rhetorical BS to your question. That would be an honest question (as opposed to another one of your loaded questions).

Anyway, I assure you that there are several billion non-Christians on this Earth (far more then there are Christians) and over a billion of those are atheist. Christians do not have a monopoly on love. All humans can love and feel the same deep bond with those that they love. That is one of the things that make us all human.

Answer 4

Whether or not there is a god does in no way diminish the miracle of life or love, or the beauty of nature and even science. Evolution itself is pretty damn amazing.
Science comes nowhere close to really understanding our brain or how it works. For me, the mystery of it all is a very profound experience, whether it involves a being that cares about whether I go to church or not. Of course love is more than that: we still barely understand the world we live in, whether through science or through religion.
Religion and science are simply different ways of coping with the overwhelming complexity of it all.

Answer 5

i think of love as an action not a feeling, love is sacrifice,
but the feeling many equate with love is very powerful and just firing neurons. that's not on any hallmark card i've seen because it does seem to lessen its power even though in reality it doesn't

Answer 6

Let us separate love as the feeling and love the impulse inherent
to procreate and perpetuate the species. The first is part of the spirit the second is material or biological.

You are NOT mother or father of the souls of your children only of the physical body. your neighbor is exactly as close as your children, with the difference that you share more communication and and have more common agreements and that you decided to grow them.

The souls or spirits that we are, you and me and every one else,
has been existing and will continue existing.

Answer 7

No, actually that's all love is. All thoughts, feelings, emotions, etc. come from your nervous system. A "soul" is nothing more than a brain. I think it's actually better than thinking God made everything. When you think about love, it seems amazing that instead of it being something God did, it's something that developed over millions of years. Something that few organisms have.

Answer 8

Humans like all animals experence "love" for their children, which is nothing more than one of the many emotions animials feel. Love is nothing more than an emotion, just like the feeling that you will live an eternity.

Answer 9

I am a beliver so I have faith there is a God so I belive Love is more than that. Love is a second life;it grows into the soul,warms every vein,and beats in every pulse.

Answer 10

I have posted a response to your questions on YA./ religion section. I hope you are able to read it. It says- this is for Indianadude.