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== Atheism contrasted with Christianity == | == Atheism contrasted with Christianity == | ||
| − | Unlike atheism which merely offers vanity and unrelenting despair, Christianity offers | + | Unlike atheism which merely offers vanity and unrelenting despair, Christianity offers an accurate view of the universe and man's place in it. For more information, please see: [[Christian joy, atheist despair and the good news of Christianity]] |
== See also == | == See also == | ||
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The Rev. Dr. Robert Stuart MacArthur was an early proponent of atheism being a causal factor for suicide.[1][2][3] See: Atheism and suicide
On March 8, 2013, Damon Linker wrote in The Week:
| “ | If atheism is true, it is far from being good news. Learning that we're alone in the universe, that no one hears or answers our prayers, that humanity is entirely the product of random events, that we have no more intrinsic dignity than non-human and even non-animate clumps of matter, that we face certain annihilation in death, that our sufferings are ultimately pointless, that our lives and loves do not at all matter in a larger sense, that those who commit horrific evils and elude human punishment get away with their crimes scot free — all of this (and much more) is utterly tragic.[4] | ” |
The agnostic Bertrand Russell wrote in 1903 about entropy and the universe:
| “ | That man is the product of causes that had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins- all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.
"Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding dispair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built." [5] |
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Atheism contrasted with Christianity
Unlike atheism which merely offers vanity and unrelenting despair, Christianity offers an accurate view of the universe and man's place in it. For more information, please see: Christian joy, atheist despair and the good news of Christianity
See also
- Atheism and suicide
- Atheism and depression
- Atheism and health
- Atheism and alcohol abuse
- Ex-Christians, self-esteem and suicide
- Atheism and morality
- Atheism and deception
Other:
External links
Atheism and despair:
- Atheism: Unyielding Despair - video
Notes
- ↑ http://www.adherents.com/misc/religion_suicide.html
- ↑ http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/161/12/2303
- ↑ NY Times, September 17, 1894, ATHEISM A CAUSE OF SUICIDE.; Dr. MacArthur Preaches on the Sin and Cowardice of Self-Destruction
- ↑ Where are the honest atheists?
- ↑ Entropy and heat death