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Originally Posted by FellaGaga-52
I'm coming across all these quotes while looking for a key one. Some female atheist scientist published a long list of what she finds richly rewarding in life, as an argument against some stupid religious comment that, as an atheist, she has nothing to live for. In her list, what "the spirit of man" ... and I want to see if, in the list she presented, all very much "of this world," anyone would argue that "the spirit of man" is not of this world? As in: the spirit of man, and of mankind, doesn't even exist, practically or abstractly, because it has been so conflated with the religious stuff.
Anyway her point was, in reply to life not having any meaning without a god, that all of the following was very meaningful for her: literature, beauty, art, curiosity, knowledge, science, love, a bunch of other stuff, and the human spirit.
No sign of sacrifices or drinking blood on her list. Today isn't a good day to get anyone to consider reassessing, but if your list of meaning includes DRINKING BLOOD because it says to in a thousands year old book, then those who lack reasonable meaning might not be on the humanist side.
Last edited by FellaGaga-52; 04-12-2020 at 05:46 PM.