I am a follower of the religion of Nihilism, and none of you matter. None of you, including me.
Ahhh.... the zero theorem.... everything adds up to nothing, and nothing matters, and no one matters.
In effect, naturalism and materialism and atheism (or extension of it).
Where there is no ultimate justice for anyone. Where there is no rhyme or reason to our lives. There is no purpose. There is no meaning to anything what so ever. There is no good or evil. There is no values to anything or anyone. Our lives, our accomplishements, etc. are all equal to the single celled amobea (or even less). The serial killer is the same as the good citizen. The genocidal dictator who kills millions, is the same as a good samaritan. Etc, etc etc.
And since we're just the creations of chaos from a mindless, unguided process and nothing more: one must wonder can you really trust your own brain to come to such grand conclusions? :thumb: let me put it in another perspective: if your computer was created through a blind, unguided process, would you trust it? No you would not. So why do you diminish your own self by assuming you were the result of the same process?
Anyways, I digress. You could easily say to me, "So what? Just because you want something to be true doesn't mean it is true," and you would be correct: but so, too, is the mindset that "Just because you don't want it to be true, doesn't mean that it isn't true." Therefore, we must come down to the evidence: direct, indirect, cir***stancial, etc. etc. etc. of whether or not all of our morals and values and purpose (ultimately) is the result of chance, or the result of a plan (design).
Also, something for you to consider.... something that T.S. Eliot said a century or so ago.....
?It is in Christianity that our arts have developed; it is in Christianity that the laws of Europe--until recently--have been rooted. It is against a background of Christianity that all of our thought has significance. An individual European may not believe that the Christian faith is true, and yet what he says, and makes, and does will all spring out of his heritage of Christian culture and depend upon that culture for its meaning...I do not believe that culture of Europe could survive the complete disappearance of the Christian faith. And I am convinced of that, not merely because I am a Christian myself, but as a student of social biology. If Christianity goes, the whole culture goes.?
The greatest irony of our world.... that no matter what belief or worldview you perscribe to.... ultimately stems from an originality that has permeated the world culture for two thousand years.... all our laws, all our moral codes and ethics and values.... all come from this belief system (ultimately) so therefore when one states "I am a moral atheist," "I am a moral naturalist", "I am a moral humanist", "I am a moral nihilist", etc etc etc..... the very things you state to be morals, values, etc. are based upon the very things you rally so hard against.
The ultimate question, should be: "Are my thoughts, opinions, sentiments, feelings, ultimately of my own discovery or because of indoctrination in all facets of culture?" because every single fabric of our society, regardless of nationality and geographic location and gender and race has been raised to follow certain codes of conduct based from this singularity (origin). The onlly way one could ever be a "true atheist" or "true nihilist", etc. is if one figures out (or creates) their own code of conduct and laws to follow that have no relation to the culture around them---- or unless they can ultimately prove that such morals, values, etc. are manmade and not from design.
And I can assure you, that even in our 21st century world the answer of where morals comes from, where consciousness and mind comes from, etc. has YET to be answered. As one of the world's leading scientists Dean Hamer, molecular biologist & geneticist from the National Institute of Heath & the Sundance Institute, has said (and I quote)
"I cannot tell you molecularly or chemically what a thought is. I cannot tell you physically what a memory is." Where did we get information from? How do we understand what is information and what isn't? Etc etc etc. There is no naturalistic answer to the question, and even someone like Richard Dawkins has not been able to give a satisfactory answer to the problem---- without first interjecting an agency (algorithmic mechanism) to make his own theories work, which goes against the complete understanding of "blind, unguided processes".
