You don't actually have a right to live you just prefer not to die. Philosophers generally agree: without an absolute God to make the rules, there is no such thing as a moral absolute there are only preferences. There is no room for fixed, natural law or moral absolutes.' 1 With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is also dead and buried. Hence, there are no needs for the props of traditional religion. John Dewey (1859-1952), the famous 20th century atheist explained, 'There is no God and there is no soul. In fact, without God there's really no such thing as right or wrong. 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. It's that simple.Īs far as asking 'what am I worth,' without God we don't actually have an intrinsic value, at least not an objective one. 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.

You serve no purpose, you'll cause no lasting effect, and in the grand scheme of things your life is utterly meaningless.

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. That means we're ultimately as purposeless as the very process which brought us into existence. 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. 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. Where do we begin in our search for the truth? We begin at the beginning. Wrong answers to important questions aren't helpful. And it's important that we discover the honest truth. So, it's important that we resolve these fundamental questions. Because you are a part of the world, how you see the world also determines how you see and treat yourself. They are life's 'big questions.' How you answer these questions determines how you see the world and how you treat the world. 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.

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