In this series I’m flaunting some of the evidence God threw around so we could know about Him.
I’m just going to come out and say this one:
You want your life to have meaning.
If there is no God, the entire universe exists without meaning.
Stars burns for eons, then disappear.
Flowers bloom for a few days, then disappear.
Stephen Hawking experienced consciousness for 76 years, then disappeared.
“Hold on, Branyan! Hawking had a brilliant mind and made great contributions to science!”
Yes.
“And Stephen Hawking didn’t believe in God!”
Correct.
Thanks for agreeing with me.
Hold on, BrainYawn! I didn’t agree with you!”
Go back and read the 3rd sentence.
What does it actually say?
When I brought up Stephen Hawking, you immediately spouted his life’s accomplishments.
You outlined things that made his life meaningful.
If you didn’t agree with me, you would have said something like:
“Hawking is dead. No biggie.”
Nobody says things like that.
Nobody EVER says things like that.
We know life has meaning.
You want your life to matter.
Where does that desire come from?
It didn’t come from a pitiless, indifferent universe.
Pitiless indifference can’t create thoughtful concern.
You can’t get blood from a turnip either.
Atheists claim there is no God.
They rarely claim there is no meaning.
Though sometimes they write entire books about the futility of life.
Which is ludicrous.
Because if life is futile there’s no point writing a book about anything.
So atheists claim to lead lives brimming with meaning.
Yet remain unable to explain why meaning is important.
There is no meaning anywhere in nature.
The quest for meaning is planted in us from outside the physical universe.
It’s outside molecules and matter.
The unquenchable thirst for meaning is evidence of something beyond nature.
Act justly.
Love mercy.
Walk humbly with your God.
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Again, still waiting for some evidence. You’ve just provided us with a bit of philosophy, but still no evidence.
And just to make sure everyone that reads this later knows just how wrong you are, I’m an atheist and my life has meaning. I have children that I enjoy seeing grow, learn, and achieve. That is very meaningful to me, and very rewarding as well.
*drop mike*
*picks up dropped mike*
Insisting that your atheist life has meaning demonstrates the point of the article. Thank you!
*drop mike again*
Why is it important to be honest? And if everyone can have “their truth” who is to say that one truth is more honest than another?
IOW: KIA… Who says your judgement of John’s honesty is valid? You? Could you possibly be wrong?
“Atheists claim there is no God.”
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Again… To correct you again, atheists do not claim “there is no God”. They don’t believe. There is a difference that has been pointed out to you repeatedly to the point that one is able to clearly Intuit that you make the error intentionally and knowingly. It’s dishonest. Stop it.
There is no distinction between “lack of belief in God” and “belief there is no God”. It means the same thing.
Have a great day!
Yes there is and you know it. You are being intentionally and knowingly dishonest.
No there isn’t. You are the dishonest one.
Have A Great Day!
Sometimes friends and acquaintances don’t believe me when I describe how much time internet Atheists spend insisting they DON’T BELIEVE that God isn’t real.
I’ve had multiple people tell me it might just be the weirdo Atheists who comment on this blog. Because, obviously Atheists believe God isn’t real! My friends think I’m exaggerating until they hear the mindless sermon for themselves.
Me: “Atheists don’t want to defend their beliefs, so they claim they don’t have any.”
Friend: “Except they believe there is no God, right?”
Me: “Ah, that’s where they will say NO… They will tell you they simply DON’T believe that God exists.”
Friend: “Uh… Isn’t that the same thing?”
Me: “Yep. But if you point that out, it will be the longest, stupidest conversation of your life.”
Friend: “Maybe internet Atheists are like that. But I think normal Atheists you meet on the bus are willing to admit they believe God doesn’t exist.”
Me: “Hopefully that’s true… I’d like to believe it’s only the internet trolls who have convinced each other it’s intelligent to say “I don’t believe God doesn’t exist.” …But, unfortunately, I simply lack that belief right now.”
Friend: “Huh?”
Me: “Never mind. That’s just a joke for those who have spent time in Atheist Nonsense Land and they need to decompress…”
Listening to atheist’s version of the meaning of life sounds like some horror story to me. Like crash-landing in space on a hostile planet or even on a mountain far from civilization with no hope of rescue. We are stuck in this pitiless, empty, and meaningless rock so we might make the best of it to survive before we have to eat one another. Of course, the story ends with everyone dying.
Right. In a pitiless universe, death is the end of the story. That shouldn’t cause any anxiety whatsoever. So why does it?
There is no reason to have evolved a desire to live “with purpose” when all we’re doing is passing genes to the next generation. This sense of finding meaning isn’t a function of biology.
A bit funny, but in my younger years I was quite convinced I was trapped on an alien planet with a bunch of crazy people, like some kind of penal colony in space. I explained to God how terribly unfair this was, and that if He were actually real, He would do something about it. He simply asked, “So Who do you suppose you’ve been talking to all these years?”
He had me there. Either I’m one of the crazy people trapped in the penal colony talking to my “imaginary” Skydaddy, which indicates I’ve been planted exactly where I belong and have no right to complain in the first place, or else God is real and the problems I see in the world are a reflection of falling short of His standard, of His intention for His creation.
If one is going to be logically honest about it, the very fact that we can even imagine another world and hold these ideals and values that people falls so darn short of, suggests we have a Divine thumb print on us.
I agree. There’s something suspicious about humanity’s continued belief in God after all these generations of supposed “lack of evidence”. If God is completely fictional, He should have gone the way of Zeus centuries ago.