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Posted by Theresa on January 27th, 2007 filed in Believe It or Not

I came across a blog the other day (Stardust Musings) where the blogger answered this statement from a Christian :

I don’t see much beauty in humanity and have a hard time believing that this was all by chance. I couldn’t live in a world where there is no hope….and a world without God is hopeless. Where in everyone’s 80-100yrs of life their body will eventually turn into fertilizer. How pointless is that. Try to picture the world solely of Atheist’s.

You can read Stardust’s whole response but here are a few excerpts that I liked:

This is very sad if the only value you can see for life is in the finality of it. It is also very sad that you see no beauty in humanity, and this is the problem I have with religious folks. They are blinded by negativity, and brainwashed into believing that humans are bad. You are pretty much saying that your god’s creations are a crappy mistake and can only be redeemed after they are dead and fly up into some never-never land wherever that is or go to some burning lake of fire. That is extremely morbid thinking to me, either way.

Humanity is beautiful! People are wonderful and there are far, far more good people in the world than bad. People who can do wonderful things, who are helpful, kind, loving, talented. Look at inventions humans have come up with…amazing that we can go to the moon and back and to send probes to other planets to give us an up-close view.

Human beings are creative…creative enough to create belief systems for conveying morals and for coping with difficulties in life…and mostly to cope with the fact that we are not immortal. If some people need this to get through life, so be it, but some of us do not need it.

Living a pointless life to me is spending all this energy on negative thoughts and looking for the bad in the world and humanity. Try to look at the world through the eyes of an Atheist? Life through the eyes of an atheist seems far more positive to me than gloom and doom, death obsessed religious folks.

Life is a continual cycle. We live, we die…nothing in the universe lasts forever. It is how we live, and love and what we leave for future generations that matters. We can be productive and live for each moment, making each day count. Write a book, do artwork, volunteer and help those in need….there is so much one can do to make your life worthwhile.