What drives me to distraction about most atheists—whether leftwing or rightwing—is that they refuse to live according to the logical of their beliefs (ie, that life is meaningless) and insist on being the loudest, most annoying moral crusaders in the universe.
I really liked the article but I find it problematic that the author expects that people without faith would struggle to find any meaning in their lives or that their lives lack virtue or meaning without faith. I am a Christian and have been all my life. I do not live my life in fear of eternal damnation nor do I live my life with eternal reward in mind - I would admit that these things have always been known to me and that in some way they must have an effect on me. However I am as normal as everyone else and have friends that are not Christians and find that for them and mostly for me Love is enough - love of my Family, my shildren and my beautiful are enough for me and that love makes me concerned for society as a whole and for people who don’t have enough to eat and live and for morality as it relates to all of this. My friends who are not Christians also seem to realate to the world in this way.
To say that life has not meaning if we are without faith or only if God exists is a problem to me when I look at these people. I don’t think God looks at things this way and I am sure that He cares about these people just as much as He does me.
These are only my thoughts and are not meant to be taken as any statement agaisnt or for the article posted.
Cheers
Mel