Richard Weikart needs to be have thicker skin.
Richard here cannot understand how nonreligious people can find meaning in life without religion. It comes from Mr Weikart not liking the results of a study conducted on atheists which was that they're not nihilists. He even thinks it was somehow a fabrication. And just for the record, Atheists haven't changed the word meaning in any way.
Weikart has said that 'the meaning that atheists and non-religious people found in their lives is entirely self-invented. According to the survey, they embraced the position: “Life is only meaningful if you provide the meaning yourself'.
And Weikart is right, it is you who can provide the meaning to your own life. Nobody else can do that.
When the nonreligious say that they can find meaning in life without religion, the conclusions will defer. This is down to the meaning of life being a product of one's very own imagination.
In Monotheism, Passover symbolizes a new start, but to those outside of monotheism Passover symbolizes a period of genocide.
To quote Adam Lee '[Passover’s] uplifting, modern message of freedom and redemption is a secondary derivation, created by carefully stepping around the unsavory parts of the tale'.
Most Holy texts are like this, and their followers will only focus on certain parts of the text and discard the rest. To be honest, its a good thing because Christians would be putting adulterers to death by stoning if otherwise.
Atheists and Agnostics have come to the conclusion that the purpose of life can't be based upon bronze age myths.
Mr Weikart, may think that nonreligious people are wrong for rejecting religious moral teaching, but they're not. He goes on to say '… many atheists and non-religious people have a hunger for meaning and a sense of moral rectitude that their worldview cannot satisfy. Sure, they are free to invent their own meaning and morality, but then they should be honest and admit that their meaning and morality has no advantage over the meaning or morality religious people put forward — or for that matter, it has no advantage over the meaning and purpose evil people invent. Their self-created meanings are every bit as much “fairy stories” as the religious ones they like to lampoon.
So now he's gone as far as calling the nonreligious evil! What ever happened to getting to know someone first before casting the first stone?
