Does Atheism imply a Lack of Meaning?
In order to answer this question, we need to analyze several consequences of an atheistic worldview. The first obvious consequence is death. And not just temporary death, but eternal death. For, according to atheism, each individual will eventually die and be no more whatsoever. Now, this actually creates quite a problem already. For, if we simply cease to exist sometime in the near future, then how can our actions have any meaning or purpose? Once we die, did it really matter whether or not we lived at all? We won’t have memories of our life, and our brief existence will be of no use to us at all. So how could it have been meaningful? We might as well have never been born. Imagine a doomed astronaut, stuck alone in an escape pod that is flying into deep space- hurtling towards a boiling star. Can his actions inside that pod possibly have any meaning? Nothing he does can possibly affect his eventual death. His actions, thoughts, and beliefs are meaningless. So too, are our lives, as we
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