Why bother with God? (General)

by David Turell , Friday, May 20, 2011, 19:33 (4745 days ago) @ dhw


> This dialogue seems to me so fundamental to many of our discussions that I'm opening a new thread for it. Matt's final question is: why even bother? If there's no God, or an indifferent God, I see no point either, apart from satisfying our intellectual curiosity about our own origins and the nature of the universe we live in.if there's no God or an indifferent God, that's fine with me. I live my life with no reference to or dependence on religious beliefs anyway, and I'm very happy without them.
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> The temptation, then, is to shrug one's shoulders and drop the subject altogether. But it won't go away, and not just because of the human compulsion to have answers to unsolved mysteries.-Now a College in California is offering a degree in Atheism! Most Bachelor degrees are an A.B. or a B.S. I'm sure the religious will favor BS. Sociologist Phil Zuckerman runs this new department, and has an agnostic/atheist website. I doubt this professor will offer odds for God during his course, as my previous entry showed (about 5 days ago). But will his students end up more secular or more religious? -
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704904604576333454244079630.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion