I've always thought this a strange argument. Knowing how we feel the most positive of emotions means they're not real? Very odd. Does this mean that a beautiful vista stops being beautiful if we know our eyes work?https://twitter.com/ctlansdown/status/1004328190180020224 …
Objectively to what? The universe doesn't care about human babies. If a god exists, it could be positive, negative or indifferent to human babies but whichever it was, it would necessarily be subjective to that god. My love exists regardless & matters more.
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That's some impressive narcissism there. Anyway, I don't think I'll be able to explain what I mean to you.
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Narcissism because I'll love my child because its my child and not because she and I are important to the almighty creator of the universe? Hmmm. I'll keep it simple.
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Because your feelings matter more than reality.
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My feelings are the subject under discussion, remember? My love for my child is the reality of my feelings. You posit that a god also exists which is a meaning you have added to those feelings. Other people add other gods or philosophical or poetic meaning.
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Your argument essentially comes down to 'I give my feelings this additional religious meaning and no-one else can possibly have any meaning unless its the same as my meaning.' This is just an assertion of your own rightness.
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But it's silly to say you feel sorry for atheists because they must realise their own feelings are meaningless because they'd only think so if they attributed meaning in the same way as you do and then they wouldn't be atheists. They'd be Catholics.
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I said that I feel sorry for the atheists who *do* realize this meaninglessness, I didn't say that I felt sorry for all atheists.
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Related question: do you agree with Richard Dawkins' observation that ultimately, at the bottom of the universe is "nothing but blind, pitiless indifference"?
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Probably. There is no reason to think it is sentient, as far as I know.
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