Saturday, September 25, 2010

Religion And Meaning

Can you believe in God and do all the stuff that normal people do such as watch television, listen to secular music, go on dates, be well educated, be in shape, do sports, have your own hobbies, and have fun in general? The answer is YES.

Religion is a source for meaning, it is not the only source for meaning. For example, my family has a pet which I would suggest is a source for meaning. The pet enriches our lives and it has nothing to do with religion.

Now, to make a point about religion and morality. I would agree that it is not fair to atheists to say that you need religion to be moral, however I would say that religion can encourage morality for obvious reasons.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dude, I thought you were Jewish. What is this crap about yashka? Drop the charade. If you want to be secular, be secular . If you want to be a Jew who believes in God but can't handle keeping all the mitzvot, just do your best. Don't adopt the foreign bullcrap because you didn't like what a few rabbis said. You had a very primitive shriek going on in your site proclaiming the secular heroism but one that I respected nonetheless... when did you twist into a yashka fanatic?

SJ said...

>> Dude, I thought you were Jewish. What is this crap about yashka? Drop the charade. If you want to be secular, be secular


I view Christianity as theistic secularism because it drops the previous focus on rituals and focuses on morals. Also, I've been SJ for so long no point in changing my name.


>> . If you want to be a Jew who believes in God but can't handle keeping all the mitzvot, just do your best


It's not that I couldn't handle the mitzvot, it's that I had trouble accepting that so many things that were interpreted into it were obligatory.


>> You had a very primitive shriek going on in your site proclaiming the secular heroism but one that I respected nonetheless...


I wonder what would happen if we weigh the science education of any secularist against your science education.



>> when did you twist into a yashka fanatic

My beliefs changed after reading different ideas, however, I am no fanatic.

Garnel Ironheart said...

So I checked out this Larry Tanner blog.

Lame.

His "definitive" proof of atheism is full of more "may"'s than a box of calenders.

This is the best they have to offer?

SJ said...

Atheism isn't really something that you prove. It comes from a perceived lack of proof for God.

NoLiveGod said...

"His "definitive" proof of atheism is full of more "may"'s than a box of calenders."

Because if you use the word "may," that automatically makes everything you say incorrect. To be right, you need to state things with utter conviction.