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I said "nihilistic thoughts", not a formal, displined study of Nihilism.
The point is that atheism offers no grand purpose to the universe to focus on;
I see your point here, although the term "nihilist thoughts" can been interpreted as acussing them of nihilists, not just that, but I believe the term is incorrect, even when you are trying to show a point there, I have to say your point of view is that of without God there is no purpose in life and therefore the "nihilist" though.
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if the atheist wants such a grand purpose, he must try and inject one into it. ...Which, since it came from him to begin with.
Ok, here we go again depending on what point of view you see it, some atheists and agnostics can agree that some or most of moral values came from Christianity, and to be fair, Judaism should be the one to take credit for it, because, according to history, all came from it, however, the though of keeping some of the values or evolving from them is great and should be followed and becoming more like humane principles rather than just religion and rituals, without going with the supernatural thought, today, and being flexible about things, is what most, including myself, think.
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is likely to be doubted by him during his times of depression. But God's principles are always true,
no matter how depressed or hopeless we temporarily become.
Yes, that's true, that happens, in times of distress and desperation atheists can question their beliefs and thinking of the possibility of a God due to distress so they can have some hope in such situations. Now, trying to see this objectively, that is a psychological issue, note that I am not neccesarily denying anything with this, but should be taken into consideration.
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He put the meaning into the universe,
so we don't have to try and take it upon ourselves to do so while throwing our own human errors and biases into the mix.
Actually, for what we can see, humans have tried to put a meaning to the universe and to life itself, we see a lot of philosophies and religions and stuff that try to make sense of everything, there is no one single meaning of the universe, established, there are several.
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21 May 2008, 3:52 pm
