"There is an emptiness and a loneliness that an atheist feels, which people of faith cannot understand. The world is absurd, an accident. Science has, or will have, all the answers, but life has no real meaning or significance. Death is final. You can have influence and an impact on the world through your children; you can do well, be remembered in the history books for hundreds, even thousands of years; when the sun dies mankind may colonize other star systems, maybe even other galaxies. But ultimately, even if it takes 15 Billion years, the universe itself will die, or collapse into a black hole or whatever, and the end is absolute nothingness, the only thing that is infinite is a void. Life, then, is meaningless and death frightening. Truth and morality can become relative, which may lead to moral confusion, hedonism, and worse…”
I do believe purpose in life and God are inseparable. I see it more with every new piece of news pertaining to corruption, death, tragedy and immorality; more with the realization that no amount of success can buy you definite satisfaction and fulfillment (even significance); more with how the world will keep chasing the wind and be swept by it- never knowing the vanity of it all; more with the frailty of life; more with how more people need more love than ever before.
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If God does not exist, we cease to have a reason to exist- and should there be a reason, that reason in itself could never last more than a lifetime. It simply dies with us and our mortal bodies. But if He does, which is a compelling possibility we must stop to consider, then the notion of life after death must be considered as well, because we WILL go somewhere. Sometimes, all that stands before man and God is a simple realization.
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dear mr abel!
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