Does life have meaning for an atheist?

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Does life have meaning for an atheist?

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TRANSPONDER wrote: Fri Oct 21, 2022 2:07 am
Yes, we do live as though the world was flat. If we do airline travel, we know we are going around a globe, But that's about the only time we realise it. But this is to reduce the Bible to the level of any other story or history book, real or false or a mix. There is no reason to put it anywhere but on the shelf with all the other books of myth. It talks about the condition of man, but we just understand it better now than the writers of the Bible, even if they hadn't ascribed it all to a god. Yes, science isn't settled by a long shot - nobody (but Theists misrepresenting it, yet again) says that it is, but the fact is that the more science has found out the more the gaps for god have shrunk. If you think that a 'longer shot' is going to validate a god (name your own) I think you are fooling yourself. And you may think that without the idea that a god made us as the pinnacle of creation,we don't value humans. Theists make that mistake all the time, just as they think life has no meaning unless a god imposes one. This is all a misconception that Theists can never understand until they deconvert.
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Re: Does life have meaning for an atheist?

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Miles wrote: Mon Oct 24, 2022 5:47 pm
Wootah wrote: Mon Oct 24, 2022 4:19 pm
TRANSPONDER wrote: Mon Oct 24, 2022 1:14 pm
Wootah wrote: Sun Oct 23, 2022 5:14 pm [Replying to JoeyKnothead in post #15]

Appeal to emotion. Any answer? Scientific or proof?
Try this one - just as a Believer expects us to accept that He is in communication with God just because he says so, We can expect you to accept that life has meanings for us, even without them being imposed on us by a cosmic dictator. If we are supposed to accept the Theist claims of how they feel, why aren't ours equally valid? After all a denialist can deny anything no matter how well validated and claim they won. Appeal to emotion may not be perfect but your appeal to denial is much worse.
I accept. So God exists?
SEE! I knew it. Even you don't know.

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I am humbled you thought I knew ... anything.
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