{"id":110,"date":"2008-10-22T19:17:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T00:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2008-10-22T19:17:52","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T00:17:52","slug":"the-meaning-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/22\/the-meaning-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One question (or statement, depending on who&#8217;s speaking) I come across on occasion is how life can have any real meaning if I don&#8217;t believe in a divine creator. In other words, there&#8217;s a claim that if you don&#8217;t devote your life to serving &#8220;God,&#8221; your life can&#8217;t possibly be meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>I was pondering posting my thoughts on this when I found the following post by Alonzo Fyfe of <a title=\"The Atheist Ethicist\" href=\"http:\/\/atheistethicist.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Atheist Ethicist<\/a> and thought I&#8217;d put off posting my own thoughts for now and share Alonzo&#8217;s wonderful metaphor. It gently and gracefully addresses the issue and shows a great difference between &#8220;meaning via religion&#8221; and\u00c2\u00a0 meaning via life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link: <a title=\"The Atheist Ethicist - The Meaning of Life\" href=\"http:\/\/atheistethicist.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/meaning-of-life.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Meaning of Life<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One question (or statement, depending on who&#8217;s speaking) I come across on occasion is how life can have any real meaning if I don&#8217;t believe in a divine creator. In other words, there&#8217;s a claim that if you don&#8217;t devote your life to serving &#8220;God,&#8221; your life can&#8217;t possibly be meaningful. I was pondering posting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/22\/the-meaning-of-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Meaning of Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[84,381,483,507,682],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-philosophy","tag-atheist","tag-god","tag-life","tag-meaning","tag-religion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}