Optimistic Nihilism by David Landers

Author:David Landers [Landers, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780692440780
Publisher: IM Print Publishing
Published: 2016-06-05T22:00:00+00:00

As reassuring as a culture can be, it’s often not enough. We need more. Becker again: “Mankind has reacted by trying to secure human meanings from beyond. Man’s best efforts seem utterly fallible without appeal to something higher for justification, some conceptual support for the meaning of one’s life from a transcendental dimension of some kind.”18 Of course: God.

Quite clearly, the most enticing method to manage one’s terror is religion. In addition to providing a soothing culture in which to belong, religion makes everything we do much more meaningful than it seems. Our behavior is no longer human (that is, animal) activity but now spiritual, glorifying the Creator or otherwise becoming part of His Plan.

Most importantly, however,

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