[siegfriedandroy]

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i guess that's fine. but also pointless. why should they? it's all meaningless and there is no legitimate reason to so strongly advocate evolution and condemn id. why not attempt to further scientific deception instead? this would be no more of an irrational objective than promoting the 'truth' as they understand it. it seems pathetic to me to so religiously value evolution and materialistic theory if there really is no God. why value truth? why not be a krishna instead? it is all so vain and empty. thank God there really is a God.

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"Your main problem is that you are unable to conceive of people ascribing meaning to their life in the absence of god. In fact, you seem incapable of even imagining how it is someone could make even the most basic of decisions without an underlying belief in god."


This is not a problem of mine. I understand that you can perfectly well ascribe meaning to your life (even if ultimately it's meaningless- in 100 years). All Im saying is the meaning you ascribe to it is ultimately subjective and meaningless and pathetic.

"I don't need a belief in god to love my family, derive enjoyment from things in my daily life, or decide that I should indeed eat at periodic times in order to not die from hunger."


you could just as well choose to ascribe meaning to your life by hating your family and doing things you do not enjoy. in the end everything you do is without real meaning. why not simply decide not to eat and starve to death? would this really be 'irrational' (whatever that means) in an atheistic world?


"Did god come into play for you today when you decided what to eat for breakfast or what clothes to wear?"


I did not eat breakfast (just woke up), and am sitting on my bed naked as I type this!


"I do indeed try to encourage my worldview, just as religious people do. I think that science is man's greatest achievement, therefore I strongly promote it's proper teaching to our young.

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As an atheist, you could just as rationally believe that science is man's worst achievement, and that it's proper to teach young people to hate it. after all, w/o science and technology, perhaps millions of less people would have perished in the 20th century (just an example- dont know if thats really true- could be). You have no legitimate reason for 'promoting' your world view'. Christians do.