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Sep 9, 2018 · Adopting a secular worldview entails recognizing that meaning is a human attribution and things do not happen for a predetermined reason, unless of course caused by deliberate human action. We are ...
God helps us to see that the struggles we encounter in life can make us stronger, and there will be many. God carries us through life's storms because of His deep love for us.
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Oct 19, 2023 · And as a Christian I’d say, “Great, wonderful.” That doesn’t really disprove the argument actually being made though. When we say you can’t be moral without God, we don’t mean you can’t be moral without knowledge of God. We mean that the whole idea of objective morality is grounded in the existence of God.
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- The Value of Human Life
A lot of the value we attribute to human life comes from religion. Even if you or your country are not explicitly religious, the traditions, legal codes, and values you hold stem, at least indirectly, from religion. If we believe a human being is ensouled in some way, or that we’re the loved and cherished children of some all-powerful deity, then i...
The sanctity of human life has great purchase across almost all world religions. However, when you remove religion, what philosophical arguments are left? For millennia, the answer owed much to Aristotle. According to Aristotle, there was only one true “good” in the universe: A being that satisfies its purpose (or telos). He believed everything sho...
Today, few secular thinkers give much weight to natural law. It’s not hard to see why. For however much Aquinas and Islamic scholars elevated rationality, the idea of “truths” and “moral absolutes” as written down in the fabric of the universe depend on certain metaphysical commitments, i.e. a god or spirit which created them. We also live in an ag...
Why, then, do we continue to value human life, especially above and beyond animals? If you value rationality, why is that? And does rationality, alone, bestow value on a human life? Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of value. One is instrumental value, which is value for what something does. The other is inherent value, which is valuable becaus...
Aug 16, 2021 · It’s widely accepted amongst scholars, the ‘preacher’ or ‘teacher’, referenced in this book is King Solomon. He laments of life, “under the sun,’ which is a common euphemism for life ‘without God.’ His lamentation focuses upon the mundane and purposeless futility of human toil soon forgotten.
Not that life without God really is without value, for this the objection admits. Therefore, it would be a mistake to react by arguing that values are not social conventions but are grounded in God. Rather the objection is really aimed at the claim that one cannot live as though values do not exist; it holds that one may live by social conventions alone.
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Jul 16, 2013 · What kind of meaning do we mean? I suggest that when we consider “the meaning of life,” we have in view at least three concepts: purpose, significance, and value. First, we want to know whether our lives have purpose: whether they’re directed toward some goal or end. A refrigerator has a fundamental purpose: it’s for keeping things cold.
