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Why am I here on earth? Where did I come from? What am I worth? Do I have any intrinsic value? Do I serve a purpose? These are all fundamental questions. They are life's "big questions." How you answer these questions determines how you see the world and how you treat the world. Because you are a part of the world, how you see the world also determines how you see and treat yourself. So, it's important that we resolve these fundamental questions. And it's important that we discover the honest truth. Wrong answers to important questions aren't helpful.
Where do we begin in our search for the truth? We begin at the beginning. Perhaps the most fundamental question is: does God exist? It's fundamental because our answers to the other "big questions" actually hinge on how we answer this significant question. For example
Why Am I Here? - The Atheistic Worldview
Why I am here? Well, if God doesn't exist, that means that life must have come about through some natural impersonal, unintelligent, and ultimately purposeless process. That means we're ultimately as purposeless as the very process which brought us into existence. Life's just an accident and so are you. You can find short term reasons for living like you're here because your parents wanted to have children, etc., but ultimately you're just an accident and so are your parents. Life is one big accident. You serve no purpose, you'll cause no lasting effect, and in the grand scheme of things your life is utterly meaningless. Without a Creator in the beginning, there was nobody around to put you here on purpose which means you aren't here for a reason. It's that simple.
As far as asking "what am I worth," without God we don't actually have an intrinsic value, at least not an objective one. Our worth is ultimately subjective. You might think you're worth something but someone else might think you're worthless, and as long as there's no transcendent Assessor to have the final say, no one's ultimately right or wrong. In fact, without God there's really no such thing as right or wrong. John Dewey (1859-1952), the famous 20th century atheist explained, "There is no God and there is no soul. Hence, there are no needs for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is also dead and buried. There is no room for fixed, natural law or moral absolutes." (Clifton Fadiman, ed., Living Philosophies: The Reflections of Some Eminent Men and Women of Our Time, New York: Simon Schuster, 1931.)
Philosophers generally agree: without an absolute God to make the rules, there is no such thing as a moral absolute; there are only preferences. You don't actually have a right to live; you just prefer not to die. Someone else on the other hand might want to kill you regardless of how you feel about it, and who is to say that they're wrong? In the absence of absolute morality, power reigns supreme; the strong survive and the weak get exploited.
Thankfully most governments see it as their duty to uphold what they see as your God-given right to live, and governments also happen to be the strongest institution among men (which means they can enforce morality upon those who don't necessarily agree with your right to live). The founders of the United States of America put it well when they declared, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" Unfortunately, some governments don't share this worldview and their people suffer terribly for it.
Why Am I Here? For the Theistic Worldview, please visit http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/why-am-i-here.htm
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triplefcku 4 months ago
how can you live if u dont believe in god (allah) there is no allala except allah
mazoooni1 5 months ago
how can you live if u dont believe in god (allah) there is no allala excelent allah
mazoooni1 5 months ago
@xbowhunter - what is "being a good person?" What authority do you have to decide who is "good"?
thomaserossi 6 months ago
my favorite; "Is that all there was?" lol
1surefriend 10 months ago
@xbowhunter You can live however you want on this earth, but that will effect where you go when you die
susanwilson13 10 months ago
HAHAHAHA Christianity Is SLAVERY!!!!!! just live your life, even better live your life to the fullest without a burden of god (BTW) liven a good life, being a good person, and succeeding, you dont have to be a christian.
xbowhunter 11 months ago
who sings the song on here?
godswayout 11 months ago
ITS UP TO YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO SPEAND ETERNAL LIFE! HEAVEN OR HELL.
godswayout 11 months ago
YOUR HOUSE,CAR, CLOTHES ALL THAT STUFF IS NOT COMING WITH YOU WHEN YOU DIE SORRY! HUMANS DID NOT MAKE THIS EARTH SORRY! PEOPLE WAKE UP! THAT IS HOW THE DEVIL WORKS, HE CONTROLS YOUR LIFE AND BLINDS YOU WITH ALL THE MATERIAL THINGS AROUND YOU. THATS WHY YOU CAN'T SEE. NOTHING ON THIS EARTH BELONGS TO YOU:) SORRY, AND WHEN PEOPLE GO TO HELL THEY ARE GOING TO WISH THEY COULD COME BACK TO EARTH. GOD GAVE YOU A WAY TO COME TOO HIM AND THAT IS THREW HIS SON. HE HAS WARN YOU!
godswayout 11 months ago