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From: bl@hplabsb.UUCP (Bruce T. Lowerre)
Newsgroups: talk.origins
Subject: Re: Shove over and make room for God!
Message-ID: <3683@hplabsb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Sep-86 19:37:36 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 10 19:37:36 1986
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Summary: Why is everything meaningless?

In article <194@BMS-AT.UUCP>, stuart@BMS-AT.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman) writes:
> In article <3566@sdcc3.ucsd.EDU>, za56@sdcc3.ucsd.EDU (Brian McNeill) writes:
> 
> > This is because many people have always felt insecure without final
> > meaning to their life.  . . .
> > . . .           People have invented religion to give their lives
> > meaning, to assuage their fear of death.
 
Also, man created God is his own image.

> a)	God does not exist and everything is meaningless.

Why does the non-existance of God imply everything is meaningless.  I can
believe everything will seem meaningless to the true believer when s/he
learns the truth but not all is meaningless to the true atheist.  For him,
the meaning of life is what he makes of it.