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Is Atheism bad for your mental health?

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  • #152
    CDfm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,649 ✭✭✭✭CDfm


    Zillah wrote: »
    I genuinely find it hard to imagine a universe more terrible than one ruled by jehovah.

    Do you really want me to answer that:rolleyes:


  • #153
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,559 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    In times of crises, I just turn to the Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster.

    Seriously, as a Buddhist (i.e. atheist) I get a lot of solace in Karma and that if my actions are good, kind and considerate, then that's all I can do.


  • #154
    Húrin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,045 ✭✭✭Húrin


    Wicknight wrote: »
    Yeah, I really never understood the comfort people take from having a purpose assigned to you by God.

    It is like going to the college you parents want you to go to, marrying the person your parents want you to marry, getting the job your parents want you to get.

    Most people would recoil in horror at such an idea, but some religious people seem to take comfort from their existence being decide for them.

    Ah, so atheism is more about pursuit of personal autonomy than about seeking the truth.


  • #155
    kiffer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,097 ✭✭✭kiffer


    CDfm wrote: »
    Do you really want me to answer that:rolleyes:

    Yeah... In fairness I can think of worse universes but I get what he means


  • #156
    ChocolateSauce
    Registered Users Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    Húrin wrote: »
    Ah, so atheism is more about pursuit of personal autonomy than about seeking the truth.

    Damn it, you caught us out! We knew we were wrong all along, just didn't want to admit it....after all, only a fool would decide there is no god, and then decide to pursue a life that wasn't bound by the fabricated laws set down by him (as opposed to the other way around).

    Or more precisely, by the fabricated laws set down by people claiming to know his will.

    Seriously, do you really think so little of us? Atheism isn't about seeking anything, it is merely the state of not believing in mysticism.


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