2007-08-28 11:14:06 · 14 answers · asked by ? 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Simply put, no.
2007-08-28 11:17:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
While I believe there is someone or a "God" if you will, I don't think it necessary to believe in a deity to know or to believe there is more to life.
Life isn't about money or personal gains. Life is what you make of it. Life is looking around you and noticing things. Taking in the beauty that surrounds us no matter where we are.
Whether it be up North with snow and ice covered trees looking like frosted crystal against the monochromatic blue-gray of the sky and ground; or somewhere south where the grass is as green as can be and the sun is blazing down warming you to the core, all with a clear, brilliant blue sky and listening to the sounds of the ocean.
When you look at this, and you look at how we came about, where we came from, the miracle of life itself, you *know* there has to be more to life.
2007-08-28 11:23:19 · answer #2 · answered by Totem 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily but I think that while searching for the meaning of life one tends to find a Deity that suits them.
2007-08-28 11:18:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No; I don't think it does. Of course, saying "There is more to life" begs the question, "More to life than what?" If that answer involves a deity or not is up to the individual, in my opinion.
2007-08-28 11:20:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it does not. There are many pathways of important spiritual significance that do not postulate a creator-type God, or even a God that is anything other than an abstraction. And there can be "more to life" even without using the term spiritual. Moral values, ethics, self-respect, compassion, humanism, etc., etc.
To generalize, in addition to religion, there is philosophy.
2007-08-28 11:20:16 · answer #5 · answered by auntb93 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think not, especially not without a definition of what you mean by a deity.
2007-08-28 11:21:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The phrase usually points toward a transcendence of the normal things in life. It refers to the supernatural. It refers to the purpose or mission that we were created to accomplish.
In any reasonable philosophical discussion, I could show that it then implies a God who created us for a purpose and with a purpose.
2007-08-28 23:00:34 · answer #7 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean more than naturalism then it would mean the supernatural. If you deem the supernatural as personal then "yes" if it is impersonal force then "no."
2007-08-28 11:20:21 · answer #8 · answered by Who's got my back? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No God gave you the freedom to believe whatever you want to.
2007-08-28 11:19:52 · answer #9 · answered by firelight 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just because you don't believe doesn't mean it's not true.
2007-08-28 11:17:50 · answer #10 · answered by lady_phoenix39 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope....it depends on what you think is more to life.
Some people think giving something back is more than just living your life.
2007-08-28 11:17:19 · answer #11 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋