Comments on: Medieval faith vs reason Part 2 http://www.michaelnugent.com/2008/12/11/medieval-faith-vs-reason-part-2/ Happiness, Atheism and Life Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:43:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Matthew http://www.michaelnugent.com/2008/12/11/medieval-faith-vs-reason-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57058 Matthew Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:05:53 +0000 http://www.michaelnugent.com/?p=915#comment-57058 Although I'm a bible-thumping pentacostal evangelical with deep roots in Scholasticism, there are times when I would really prefer to be an atheist. As an atheist you are responsible to no one for ideas; you are free to construct your own world-view without interference from anyone else. Given my temperment and training, my world view would immediately regard everybody else on the planet as amusing little toys to be used for whatever form of social or economic gratification I had in mind. Since, obviously, my opinion would be just as valid as anyone else's (even more so, because it's mine and, as the philosophers have said, "existence is its own justification), there's no way in hell that anybody would reasonably argue me out of the most pleasant and determined selfishness. Whatever arguments could be advanced about my "duty" to humanity or other sentimental, unprovable rot, would have no more force than my argument which states that we're put on earth to make each other happy so you better get on the stick. Ah, sweet atheism....alas, it's not to be. Although I'm a bible-thumping pentacostal evangelical with deep roots in Scholasticism, there are times when I would really prefer to be an atheist. As an atheist you are responsible to no one for ideas; you are free to construct your own world-view without interference from anyone else. Given my temperment and training, my world view would immediately regard everybody else on the planet as amusing little toys to be used for whatever form of social or economic gratification I had in mind. Since, obviously, my opinion would be just as valid as anyone else's (even more so, because it's mine and, as the philosophers have said, "existence is its own justification), there's no way in hell that anybody would reasonably argue me out of the most pleasant and determined selfishness. Whatever arguments could be advanced about my "duty" to humanity or other sentimental, unprovable rot, would have no more force than my argument which states that we're put on earth to make each other happy so you better get on the stick.

Ah, sweet atheism….alas, it's not to be.

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