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Old 07-19-2011, 11:09 PM   #77
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Originally Posted by JustJo View Post
In a different thread, someone (other than Jar) posted that a life without belief in God basically had no meaning. Frankly, I got pissed.
I heard an argument made that a belief in God (at least in the Christian style) renders life meaningless. What happens here isn't really important, what truely matters is what comes next.

I don't entirely believe that argument but it makes an interesting point. I think it's one of the things that has always bothered me about most religions. I believe, regardless of whether or not there is a "next", while we are here then here is all that matters. If there is anything beyond here, it will attend to itself when the time comes. I cannot accept that life is nothing more than the drudgery we have to endure to earn a reward in some afterlife.
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