Author

Hey friends, how do you like this quotation from the famous Atheist Bertrand Russell who admitted that on Atheism life is meaningless.

” That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins – all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s salvation henceforth be safely built.

Betrand Russell

Discussion

5 comments

  1. Harold Goldman says:

    Based on What he says his thoughts can’t be trusted so how can he know anything? Materialistic world view is meaningless so why bother living there’s a lot of needless pain to go through the world should commit suicide and put an end to this meaningless life. But if there was a god that truly existed well life would be meaningful

  2. Victor Van Der Woude says:

    It sounds like Hinduism – the absence of meaning is the end goal so that by not caring you transcend emotions and attain a higher relationship to the universe. The absence of meaning therefore allows you to do as you wish without guilt and live life’s existential/temporal pleasures (whether this is selfish or virtuous doesn’t matter). Something to that effect anyway.

  3. Claudette Renee says:

    “How deep is that darkness”!

  4. Kathy DeVoss says:

    What a bunch of hogwash. Secular humanism in all it’s glory

  5. […] Hey friends, how do you like this quotation from the… […]