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I mean, people can do and think whatever the hell they want. But to have such a bleak outlook on the world, thinking that nothing exists after death and that we're all just part of some large coincedence and that our faith is nothing more than a product of fear for our mortality; as logically as that all may sound, what's the point in thinking that way?
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What I'm saying is that there is a misconception that people who don't believe in God have a bleak outlook on life. While that is true for some, it isn't true for a great many others. Just look at
www.randi.org. You have a lot of skeptics there who lead very happy lives. They believe in advancing the human race and reaching new frontiers. They don't consider their own death to be of much consequence. Afterall if you're dead then you're not around to care that you're dead. They have a very positive outlook. They're also free from the need to believe in a God in order to lead a happy and moral existence. Because there are people who believe in God and the morality that comes from that, they can't understand how people who don't believe in God can be moral. If they did understand then they wouldn't need God. This is why atheists are so distrusted.