Then doesnt any purpose we attempt to give ourselves become empty and very void,becuase no matter how much we may acheive here we cant take it with us when we die.
Is life not vain without the presence and understanding of God and His eternal purpose for us?
2007-11-10 08:30:19 · 33 answers · asked by Maurice H 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No it doesn't make me feel empty with void, it makes me feel in control of my own destiny and free of the nonsense the religious dogmas have made us suffer under. How can something that doesn't exist give us an eternal purpose?
2007-11-10 08:32:39 · answer #1 · answered by Steve C 7 · 8⤊ 2⤋
No. Any purpose that we give our lives fills that void. Hence the word purpose.
As a matter of fact, your purpose and the purpose of non-believers are essentially the same--to live long enough to reproduce and send your genetic information on into the next generation. That we all each decide to give that purpose meaning or not is completely relativistic.
Again, another logically flawed question, brought to you by your local neighborhood Christian idealogue.
2007-11-10 08:40:29 · answer #2 · answered by the_way_of_the_turtle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a bad argument to get into with an Atheist. Mostly, they will tell you that they are leading a fulfilled life because they are not living a lie, i.e. believing in God. So, their purpose for living is even greater, because this is the ONLY life to live.
I can't say I totally disagree with them. I'm not an atheist, but it does make sense! I give a lot of credit to atheists. I think it might be harder to believe that there is nothing after this life, than it is to believe that God exists. It is very hard to truly believe that after we die we will turn to dust. They deserve more respect than they get from Christians.
2007-11-10 08:33:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Just because you do not believe in an after life doesn't mean that you can't be a good person in life. It means that you are a good person to make others happy and to make yourself happy instead of being a good person to get something out of it. That is at least how a lot of people that i know are. For some people though, they need religion because if they don't get something out of it then they don't know why they should be good. On the other hand, a lot of the terrorist attacks are because people believe that it is what God wants them to do.
2007-11-10 08:37:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life has a purpose because we're living now.
Life becomes infinitely more valuable without the belief in an afterlife or god.
2007-11-10 08:37:35 · answer #5 · answered by Defunct 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just the opposite. Knowing there is no god, no heaven makes every day all the more special and gives life purpose. It is the religious people I find odd since they can not find happiness and purpose in life until after they are dead. Religions worship death.
2007-11-10 08:51:14 · answer #6 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wanting something to be does not make it so. The "purpose" of life is to survive, to contribute to the intelligent development of the universe. We should do our best to help our species survive (and failing that, to at least keep the universe habitable for some kind of intelligence).
It's not a matter of what I "take with me", but of what I leave behind. Even though I die, WE survive, building on the progress of our predecessors. To assume that there is Someone, out there, invisibly watching us, cheering us on but sneering at our blunders, says very little for the nobility of "God".
2007-11-10 08:42:09 · answer #7 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is made more valuable by being an atheist. While the Christian has 'endure' this life and wait for eternal bliss, atheists such as myself realize we should live this life to the fullest, as it is the only life we'll have.
There is a certain beauty in nature which, for me, can never be replaced by religion. Science, family, friends, and life itself gets me through the day.
2007-11-10 08:37:29 · answer #8 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From Vivekananda's Paper on Hinduism: "The Vedas prepare us that introduction is devoid of beginning up or end. technology is declared to have proved that the sum entire of cosmic ability is often the comparable. Then, if there grew to become right into a time while no longer something existed, the place grew to become into all this manifested ability? some say it grew to become into in a ability variety in God. if so God is each and every from time to time ability and each from time to time kinetic, which might make Him mutable. each and every little thing mutable is a compound, and each little thing compound could desire to undergo that alter it is named destruction. So God could die, it is absurd. as a result there never grew to become right into a time while there grew to become into no introduction. If i would be allowed to apply a simile, introduction and writer are 2 lines, devoid of beginning up and devoid of end, working parallel to a minimum of one yet another. God is the ever lively windfall, by making use of whose ability structures after structures are being progressed out of chaos, made to run for a repeatedly destroyed. it is what the Brâhmin boy repeats daily: "The sunlight and the moon, the Lord created like the suns and moons of previous cycles." And this has a similar opinion with cutting-edge technology."
2017-01-06 12:03:09 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do we have to "take it with us when we die"? The whole point of life is to enjoy it and make it productive and fun. Why is it so hard for you to realize that life can have meaning without God? Just because you want your life to have some magical meaning, doesn't mean it does.
For me, life is the most precious, valuble thing there is. But that doesn't mean it has to last forever, and it doesn't. I don't base my beliefs on what I think is comforting, but what I believe to acutally be true. Reality isn't always so nice and pretty.
2007-11-10 08:44:14 · answer #10 · answered by Alex H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ahh , how cute ...Pissst guys i think this one's just about to discover that when we die , no matter how much we may achieve here we cant take it with us ... Excuse me would you like to come to your senses and just admit it - There is no god - no afterlife and that this world is all there is there is no understanding of God and His eternal purpose for us because he does not exist - he is just a belief
2007-11-10 08:41:46 · answer #11 · answered by Godzilla Gal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋