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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Agreed. Believing in God or a higher power doesn't automatically give your life meaning, but it may encourage you to seek out meaning more than if you just embrace nihilism. Your original motivation may be irrational, but if it leads you to fulfillment then it's still served a legitimate purpose.
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I think Humanism is pretty much how atheist's fill in the gaping chasm of nihilism. We accept nihilism, meaning/purpose isn't objective... but that shouldn't undermine subjective meaning and purpose - especially a collective sense of meaning shared between peoples.