Comments on: Life After God http://rationalapologetics.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/life-after-god/ WWW.RATIONALAPOLOGETICS.COM Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:40:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Morgan-LynnGriggs Lamberth[skeptic griggsy] http://rationalapologetics.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/life-after-god/#comment-20 Morgan-LynnGriggs Lamberth[skeptic griggsy] Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:57:47 +0000 http://rationalapologetics.wordpress.com/?p=9#comment-20 Michael Peterson Michael Peterson

]]> By: Morgan-LynnGriggs Lamberth[skeptic griggsy] http://rationalapologetics.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/life-after-god/#comment-19 Morgan-LynnGriggs Lamberth[skeptic griggsy] Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:56:57 +0000 http://rationalapologetics.wordpress.com/?p=9#comment-19 Yes! There is so much evil to count against any god but enough good for us to appreciate life. Some think we cannot so aver,as Michale Peterson notes in "God and Evil, since then if all the evil hadn't happen we would not be here. That is a paradox. Evil counts against any god ,but that is independent of our valuing life. Theists have a cop-out in that they claim that if God doesn't responds with yes to prayers, then He has a reason for that.But they don't know that and that seems to be an argument from ignorance to me. Yes! There is so much evil to count against any god but enough good for us to appreciate life. Some think we cannot so aver,as Michale Peterson notes in “God and Evil, since then if all the evil hadn’t happen we would not be here. That is a paradox. Evil counts against any god ,but that is independent of our valuing life.
Theists have a cop-out in that they claim that if God doesn’t responds with yes to prayers, then He has a reason for that.But they don’t know that and that seems to be an argument from ignorance to me.

]]> By: Mat Wilder http://rationalapologetics.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/life-after-god/#comment-15 Mat Wilder Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:33:14 +0000 http://rationalapologetics.wordpress.com/?p=9#comment-15 I wish more people could realize the truth of this. I like to put it this way: is the beauty of a flower in any way diminished by its wilting? Additionally, if there were an afterlife, what would the point of this life be? A supposedly perfect, blissful existence after this one, makes this one - beautiful though it is - pale and empty, because there is much suffering mixed with the beauty. I am reminded by your post of one of my favorite Camus quotes: "If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life." -Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus I wish more people could realize the truth of this. I like to put it this way: is the beauty of a flower in any way diminished by its wilting? Additionally, if there were an afterlife, what would the point of this life be? A supposedly perfect, blissful existence after this one, makes this one – beautiful though it is – pale and empty, because there is much suffering mixed with the beauty.

I am reminded by your post of one of my favorite Camus quotes: “If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”
-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

]]> By: Stephen Thomas http://rationalapologetics.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/life-after-god/#comment-10 Stephen Thomas Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:12:21 +0000 http://rationalapologetics.wordpress.com/?p=9#comment-10 Agreed -- the shorter isn't the better. I certainly didn't mean that. My point was that the end of life emphasizes the life -- if it weren't for the knowledge of death, many would live differently. Death, while the absence of beauty itself, ironically impacts our lives to make them more beautiful. I agree, though, that this could very well be relative to the person doing the living. ;-) Agreed — the shorter isn’t the better. I certainly didn’t mean that. My point was that the end of life emphasizes the life — if it weren’t for the knowledge of death, many would live differently. Death, while the absence of beauty itself, ironically impacts our lives to make them more beautiful. I agree, though, that this could very well be relative to the person doing the living. ;-)

]]> By: panvega http://rationalapologetics.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/life-after-god/#comment-9 panvega Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:08:03 +0000 http://rationalapologetics.wordpress.com/?p=9#comment-9 I agree that we don't need God for life to be worth living. It seems incredibly sad to me that people need God to explain the beautiful things in the world. That said, I don't think being short is what makes life precious. It seems that would imply that shorter lives are inherently more meaningful, and that the longer a person lives, or a relationship, etc., is, the less meaning it has. I agree that we don’t need God for life to be worth living. It seems incredibly sad to me that people need God to explain the beautiful things in the world.

That said, I don’t think being short is what makes life precious. It seems that would imply that shorter lives are inherently more meaningful, and that the longer a person lives, or a relationship, etc., is, the less meaning it has.

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