What is the purpose of life for an atheist? Is not their ultimate task suicide?
This is not meant to be offensive. I will behave myself.
Personally I am not an atheist so I may be wrong but I dont beleive that there goal is suicide. Their beleifs differ in that they dont beleive in any mightier being. They still live out there lives but dont expect to have any form of life after death. Again I am not an atheist so I may be wrong but this is just my opinion.
I am an aethiest, and I believe that we live to fulfill being happy :P, and to help christians realize their lifelong mistake 
I strongly disagree. Their purpose is to live as full a life as possible. Their goal in life is too succeed in everything they desire to succeed in.
how can you say everything I want to say better? 
Woops that was a typo on my part I couldnt agree with you more just at 4 in the morning all the keys sort of start to look the same lol.
hm… intersting that entire words come out of typos :P, it’s all good
i dont think atheists hate life, or desire suicide - why does it have to me a negative thing?? Its not like they are denying GOD, for he would have to exist (in their mind), to be denied. They just choose not to believe what you choose to believe in.
Some have good reasons, and others are just upset at life, and figure,‘if there was a god, he wouldn’t have given my mom cancer’, and then take it from there…
Fred Reed, internet-article-writer-extraordinare made this observation about atheists…
Some atheists argue that there is no proof that god exists, so therefore he must not exist… Fred argues, that there is no proof that he doesn’t exist, so basing your decision on that alone, is flawed… its like: Absence of proof is not proof of absence
As for me, i cant bring myself to believe that the religion i was born into (christian) is the one true religion, and all others are heathen mythologies, but i do believe in the existance of a higher power, of divine origin…
[color=black][font=Verdana]
[color=black][font=Verdana]I am an aethiest, and I believe that we live to fulfill being happy , and to help christians realize their lifelong mistake[/font][/color]
[/font][/color]
[color=black][font=Verdana]Ha ha ha lmao how true……[/font][/color]
[color=black][font=Verdana]I think a better question would be to ask a religious person what’s the purpose in their life.[/font][/color]
[color=black][font=Verdana]Think of a villager who believes in his volcano God… He spends his whole life tossing in virgins and trying to appease his God.[/font][/color]
[color=black][font=Verdana]Think of ancient Egyptians worshiping the Sun. Sacrificing animals, praying and building temples.[/font][/color]
Now we look back on these people as stupid because they didn’t know any better. They wasted their lives believing in rubbish and letting that rubbish govern their life’s.
As an atheist I accept that there is no purpose to life.
That my life has about as much meaning as the bacteria living on your tooth brush has.
I accept that I as a biological entity my self preservation is just an evolutionary by product.
I accept that I only get to live once and make the most out of it.
I don’t waste my one and only life trying to appease non existent Gods because I am to weak to face reality.
[font=Wingdings][font=Wingdings][/font][/font]
I 1. was born into aethiesm (sp?) and 2. don’t only think that there is no proof of god, but that it’s outdated material, much has been proved against the church by science, like galileo was right and the church was wrong then, it’s been wrong many times before, never before has aethiesm been proven incorrect as a religion
that’s because atheism is NOT a religion.
As for my PURPOSE in life? No god**** (pun intended) idea. Because we are conscious, we’re supposed to have a meaning for our lives?
What is the purpose of life for an atheist?
Sex drugs and rock’n’roll !
Just try to remember that most religious people cannot understand how others live without their god(s)… but we do :trout:
Hmm… I’m not trying to start something here… I just want to say that you may think such people were “stupid”, but not everyone does. Religion is and always has been a way to explain what is. Sacrifice of animals, praying, building temples, they are all things that are part of many religions, except that the sacrifice of animals has gone down quite a bit. I don’t know much about ancient Egyptian theology, aside from its similarities to Hinduism, so I’ll explain a bit of Hinduism instead. All sacrifices in traditional Hinduism (that is, not the corrupted type that many people practice because they haven’t been taught the traditional way) have a reason. Widows were burned (traditionally) at their own request. Upon the death of their husbands, they gave up their lives to God. Death is considered something to be celebrated.
Anywho, sorry about that, just had to point out that not everyone considers it strange or stupid. I actually find myself wishing the world hadn’t changed so much sometimes.
lol, as a Christian, I try and help atheists realize their lifelong mistake.
Anywho, sorry about that, just had to point out that not everyone considers it strange or stupid.
Nah it’s good… I never heard about Widows burning themselfs before…
And I thought praying to the Sun was a silly thing to do…
My husband’s dead… Lets roast myself, and throw a party !!!
I think you just set in stone how stupid some religions can be…
Although if I am ever in love with someone enough to marry them,
spend years and years with them…
As long as any kids I had were old enough to look after themselfs…
I would like to die at the same time…
If my g/f was told today she was terminal and had months to live,
I wouldn’t let her face death alone… I would go with her…
Not because of any silly religious belief, but because I know she would be scared and I wouldn’t want her to go through that alone.
Exactly… at least in classical Hinduism, God is something that’s just there. You make your own decisions, you do your own things, but God is just there. It’s sort of hard to explain, and I doubt you’d want to hear it anyway. But what you just said about dying at the same time as the one you love, that is very much the thinking that these widows had. In a widow’s mind, her husbands is with God, and she loves her husbands so much that she would want to be wherever he is, and if that place is with God all the better.
The dying with your love one is fine…
I dont see that as a big deal…
I am all for it…
But to light yourself up ?
fine kill yourself, but there are easier ways
Hindus worship the Sun. Therefore, Hindus worship fire.
I had to a bit of searching through my books to remember exactly why we worship fire though. Heh. Fire is considered a divine energy that can be both seen and felt. This is different from God, who cannot be seen, but who can be felt by few. So fire is said to be the mediator between humans and God. Thus it makes sense for a widow to choose this method of suicide.
exactly. Life is treasured more by those who find it more precious and not everlasting.
that’s annoying, both of you. Let christians be christians and let atheists be atheists unless they’re search for answers which they can’t find within their own beliefs (at which point its certainly acceptable).
There’s nothing more annoying (at least in my case) than being approached by some religious activist(s) in their attempts to befriend me in order to make me see the “truth.” I have things figured out for myself, thank you. I understand that it may be your purpose in life to spread the word of God, but its not mine to accept it.
Though I may be agnostic/atheist I have nothing against people and their religion. Just because I don’t believe in it doesn’t mean I’m right, and I will even suggest to others that they may need to seek help in God to help them with their issues and questions in life. It could work for them as it has worked for others. More power to you… so long as you keep that power away from me and let me lead my own uncontrolled life. I get enough direction from the government; I don’t need any more from a religious institution who claim that you must follow the wishes of an entity I personally don’t believe exists.
My purpose is to make sure I live what little life I’ve been granted the best I can before its gone forever. Besides, what good is an afterlife? Is there purpose there? Theres no climax. Are you just expected to spend eternity… spending eternity? Life is defined by how its spent. You know you’ve had a good life if at the moment you die you appreciate all that’s happened to you in life. What is there to appreciate in an afterlife that has no purpose of its own? If I did have a religious association, I’d like to think I’d pick one with the belief of reincarnation. That sounds much better IMO. woohoo! on to another limited life!
:te:
I think it all comes down to personal preference. While the interpretations of religion change over a period of time, the fundamental goal of helping people to be better is the same in almost all religions. The purpose of life for an atheist is probably no different than that of any other law-abiding citizen who is religious or not.
Religious people also have done what you mentioned mlk. Think of the religious band Creed 
:rambo:
