uhhh i'm not a mindless slave dude.I do everything everyone else does such as play video games.watch anime and cartoons,play sports,crack jokes,have relationships. I do what a normal man does.I have haad other reasons for conversions such as the film a case for Christ and a case for a Creator and I read the Bible.
I didn't say you were a mindless slave, I said you think that you need to be a mindless slave to find meaning in your life.
Part of the core message of Christianity is that God created everything for his glory. He's the shepherd, we're the sheep. We are supposed to devote our lives (and the afterlife) to the devotion and worship of this being.
As Christopher Hitchens put it so well, God is directly analogous to being the Dear Leader of a Cosmic North Korea. Where your life is spent worshipping the man in charge. However, at the very least, when you die, you can get out of North Korea.
and most atheists I meet are only atheists for emotional appeal.
I've been an Atheist for a good 10 years, and I have no idea how you can even formulate an emotional appeal to justify disbelief in a God Claim.
Even in the example above, stating that God is similar to a dictator of sorts does not give reason to think he may not exist. All that would mean that if he exists, he's not very pleasant.
Instead it was meant to point out that the emotional appeal you use to believe, isn't even that good of an emotional appeal when you look at both sides of the story.
Either way what it boils down to is a simple lack of evidence. And you can't tie an emotional appeal to a lack of evidence, it simply doesn't work.
So can you give an emotional appeal someone has used to hold an Atheistic position?
and you can't give yourself purpose because:analogy If i go to an alien planet and find a box but on that planet it was created as a hat,can i say it was made to carry things?NO!! i can only pretend.
Your whole example infers design, it's not applicable to this discussion. There's no reason to believe we were specifically designed.
Beyond that however, you can certainly use the hat as a box, and imbue that purpose onto it. What is stopping you?
In atheism there is NO meaning at all, you can only pretend which means you had no meaning to begin with, and if when you die you can't pretend anymore and since it is all destined to cease to exist then that means you had no meaning at all in the long run,you were just like a kid playing a game.You can find a goal,but a meaning is the sole reason you exist which you can't decide
And how is that better than pretending you have some outside purpose because it makes you feel good?
I recognize my life is finite, that drives me to want to achieve as much as I can with it with the time I have available. I want to experience all I can, and I want to do many things and accomplish many goals.
I have given my own life purpose and meaning, and I certainly find it valuable. If I die and find there is some form of afterlife, awesome. However, that is in no way required.
