Meaning and purpose to Atheists...

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SnowDrops
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Re: Meaning and purpose to Atheists...

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Well I want to say that I read about Nietzsche and it seems that he died from a "mysterious mental illness". Honestly, I think he collapsed under the stress of trying to accept that there is no objective morality, which he knew his worldview implied. :shakehead:
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B. W. wrote:
humblesmurph wrote:This is only my third post, so there may be a delay. Sorry if this pops up at a stupid time, but being an atheist, I thought it appropriate to post here.

The atheists I know aren't concerned with disproving God. They just don't see a connection between the consequences of a Godless Universe and the actual existence of God. Simply put, even if the atheist believed that their's is a bleak and hopeless existence without God, that belief says nothing about whether there actually is one. That's a separate question.
That's a good point you bring up. I would say that the majority of atheists are not concerned about disproving God. The mititant atheists are the ones that do and grab all the headlines. Most - like to be left alone to live life as best they can midst the backdrop of a bleak and hopeless existence without any purpose y:-?
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Maybe most atheists don't try to disprove theism. But you should hear some American atheists complain here in the States when they find a manger scene in a public place or a billboard sign about God. If they get the secular utopia they seem to want, I won't live in it.
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SnowDrops wrote:No replies?

Well I want to say that I read about Nietzsche and it seems that he died from a "mysterious mental illness". Honestly, I think he collapsed under the stress of trying to accept that there is no objective morality, which he knew his worldview implied. :shakehead:
This (http://www.changinglivesonline.org/item ... eists.html) is a very good lecture where the first few seconds of part one are about Nietzsche.
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