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How can life be beautiful when you have no hope for an eternal life? How can it be beautfil when you have no purpose but to fullfill you're own meaningless goals? For, since you say you don't believe in this God, then afterlife for you is nothing and therefore life itself for you is meaningless.
Do you know what? this is the one single thing that really annoys me about christians like you. The fact that you think that because I don't believe in your god means my life is meaningless. How dare you tell me I'm meaningless because I don't bow down to an image every sunday?
I'm a teacher you know, I work in a place where we work our hardest to give people a good start in life, is that meaningless?, I have 2 daughters who I will try to bring up to be good people and teach them all I know, is that meaningless? I have a beautiful woman in my life who is a spiritualist who respects my right to not believe in a god, yet I will look after her and share my life with her, is that meaningless?
Life is beautiful to me because of it's finite nature, and therefore every day is a valuable experience in itself, and perhaps more beautiful than someone who is looking foward to their afterlife while spending their life on earth on their knees.
To answer the op, I was led to god as a child and went to church because my family did. But I finally realized that man made up gods to explain the unexplainable, and if you have an explaination for everything and a cast iron guarantee of eternal life, coupled with forgiveness and love, then I'm not surprised it sold well. However it is amazing how those religions have repeatedly failed throughout history to live up to their own publicity.
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..and you fail to even have some sort of courtesy to christian beliefs.
..and you refuse to even entertain any alternative to your world view because you simply comdemn them as wrong.
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