An Atheistic Sense of Life

How is it that the religious view life with worth of any kind? With an afterlife that the religious believe that most people go to, is there any sense in getting everything out of this life? After all, the logical conclusion to religion is that you should transfer your life, mind and soul to the veneration and servitude of the worshipped, regardless of concerns for your own happiness. This idea, coupled with the idea of an Afterlife, causes there to be a lot of people who do not have the appreciation for life they should. I think that, if anything, news of a death affects me more than it affects the religious. The mystical say that "they're in a better place now", whereas I say that that person will never be in love again, never have a good day, never eat another ice cream cone, never laugh, never make love, never say "Hi Dad" or "I love you" or anything ever again...

Is it worth it to spend your life in guilt? The Religious say that we will receive our reward in the afterlife. But what if they're wrong and life is a one-way ticket with a dead end? Do you want to look back on your life and realize that you wasted it believing in something that wasn't there, rejecting pleasure for some fantasy?

Not me.

Pro-Life (For Now)

Sadly, the political landscape is scarred from the foolish demagougery surrounding a hot topic: abortion. Badnarik had it right when he said "it's not a religious issue". What it is is a sign that science and philosophy are disjointed and need to get back together. You see, science provided us with abortion, but philosophy was too busy fighting over petty things like "is the table really there?" to notice that we could have weighed in heavily on the fight of the century.

As for me, however, because the question is philosophically undecided, I choose to be anti-abortion, because I have no idea if every abortion kills a human being, and I would rather be safe than complicit in selective genocide.

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