1. What does atheism say about the purpose (or the meaning) of life?

Comment #136866 by elect the dead on March 1, 2008 at 10:23 pm

That is a ridiculous question. It implies that atheism has something to say about the purpose/meaning of life. It doesn't!!! Atheism does not have a set list of beliefs. It is not believing in god an things of that sort. I don't know where they think we created a universal atheist required system of thought...requiring a certain kind of thought about that stuff is for religions not atheism.

2. Atheists don't believe in anything

Comment #136863 by elect the dead on March 1, 2008 at 10:15 pm

I suppose if by "atheists don't believe anything" they mean "atheists don't believe any random bullcrap about supernatural beings or claims that something is true without any proof at all" than yes, we don't.

3. If you don't accept the supernatural, you obviously think life is depressing, meaningless and cold

Comment #136862 by elect the dead on March 1, 2008 at 10:10 pm

I'd be a thousand times more depressed if i thought there was a god. In my mind life is free and we're in control of what we do. Once you assume there's a god that controls everything you have no freedom. Plus it seems to me like god would be a horribly egotistical, moody, frightening thing. god could get mad at someone who lives in the same city as you, and decide to destroy that city, killing thousands, for that one person(or so i've heard religious people say). god gets angry if you worship anyone but it, and will gladly kill you if you do. god has its strict rules and if you don't follow them you go to hell. sounds terrifying and very restricting to me...no god seems like the more optimistic choice. like bad religion says in God's Love:
Tell me; where is the love?
In a careless creation
When there's no "above"
There's no justice
Just a cause and a cure
And a bounty of suffering
It seems we all endure
And what I'm frightened of
Is that they call it "God's love"

4. Science can answer how questions but only religion can answer why questions

Comment #136854 by elect the dead on March 1, 2008 at 9:39 pm

I don't really see why people always say there has to be a purpose to our lives. I think it comes from the same kind of thought that said that we were at the center of the universe. It seems to me like these people are so full of themselves as humans that they can't stand to be as insignificant in comparison to everything as we really are. A human life is nowhere near the blink of an eye in relation to the life of the universe. They can't take that so they end up claiming that god created us to be special and that we must have a purpose. Looks like the only thing significant about them is the size of their egos.

5. How can the Earth be so perfectly suited for life by coincidence?

Comment #136830 by elect the dead on March 1, 2008 at 7:34 pm

It is true that life adapted to the world, not the world to life, but even if the conditions here were made for life it was bound to happen somewhere. If the chances that a planet would end up with conditions like Earth's that would support life as we know it were one billion to one, there are way more than one billion planets out there that we don't even know about, so it would have had to happen. It wouldn't be coincidence at all.