The Secular World View Of Atheism
The King James bible tells us “And it repented the Lord that he had made man on earth, and it grieved him at his heart” (Genesis 6:6). But also as Nietzche’s comment suggests, perhaps God was created by us humans and an atheist might contend that we have done so mainly as a means to cope with thoughts about our own mortality.
This report analyses and compares the Catholic religious tradition, in which God and the afterlife are key beliefs, with the secular world view of atheism, which in this report is the belief that there is no God. Secularists typically believe that science has made God redundant and that no supernatural explanation is needed for our existence.
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John 11:26 tells us “And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.” The New Testament speaks of God wanting to have a relationship with humans both in this life and the next life, although this can only happen if our sins are forgiven (John 3:16–21 and 2 Peter 3:9). Thus our purpose in this life is to know, love, worship and glorify God so we can enter heaven in our afterlife and be happy with God. And as Jesus said in Matthew 6:19-20 "Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth; where the rust and moth consume and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven; where neither the rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. …show more content…
(Sisyphus, according to the Greek myth, was required to roll a rock up a mountain for ever only to have it roll back down again. And so long as Sisyphus accepted that there is nothing more to life, then he could find happiness in life, argued Camus.) Camus contends that the universe doesn't care if we are here or not. And any people that might care will soon be dead. Camus suggests that life or human existence has no real meaning or purpose because human existence occurred out of a random chance in nature, and anything that exists by chance has no intended purpose. An atheist would find it difficult to imagine a more useless waste of time than spending it in the worship of what they see as an imaginary God or preparing for a non-existent everlasting life in some realm of eternal
This report analyses and compares the Catholic religious tradition, in which God and the afterlife are key beliefs, with the secular world view of atheism, which in this report is the belief that there is no God. Secularists typically believe that science has made God redundant and that no supernatural explanation is needed for our existence.
I chose atheism for this analysis to ensure a clear-cut contrast in beliefs, …show more content…
John 11:26 tells us “And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.” The New Testament speaks of God wanting to have a relationship with humans both in this life and the next life, although this can only happen if our sins are forgiven (John 3:16–21 and 2 Peter 3:9). Thus our purpose in this life is to know, love, worship and glorify God so we can enter heaven in our afterlife and be happy with God. And as Jesus said in Matthew 6:19-20 "Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth; where the rust and moth consume and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven; where neither the rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. …show more content…
(Sisyphus, according to the Greek myth, was required to roll a rock up a mountain for ever only to have it roll back down again. And so long as Sisyphus accepted that there is nothing more to life, then he could find happiness in life, argued Camus.) Camus contends that the universe doesn't care if we are here or not. And any people that might care will soon be dead. Camus suggests that life or human existence has no real meaning or purpose because human existence occurred out of a random chance in nature, and anything that exists by chance has no intended purpose. An atheist would find it difficult to imagine a more useless waste of time than spending it in the worship of what they see as an imaginary God or preparing for a non-existent everlasting life in some realm of eternal