I think you and Camus have more in common than you realize. After all, it wasn't that he WANTED the world to be meaningless--he worked to make it less so. He certainly didn't believe that everybody should mindlessly pursue their own gratification like Byron.
Also, what have you got against animals? I haven't noticed any goats killing each other over differences of opinion, or spiders making war, or dogs locking each other up for life, or birds practicing genital mutilation. Non-human predators don't create rationales of inferiority to justify eating another animal, and they don't stack them in tiny cages and cut off their beaks, either. One could argue that humans are the ones who should be aspiring to the relatively pure morality of the other animals.
But he denied spirituality, without which the world is meaningless. You've read the Stranger, I assume. If that is the Atheist Existential ideal, what meaning did he have in his life?
But what animal has ever gazed at the stars and considered that there is something beyond his present existance? What animal has composed, or painted, or sculpted, or written? Do the birds know what they sing, or do they simply let out sounds? Our capacity for evil is overcome only by the Grace God has given us to do good.
"You can have your way - Christianity lies broken, perverted by the heretics who hijacked the Faith so throughly nobody knows the difference anymore. Even the members of the Church cannot see when they are fed venom. Destroy James Dobson and Jack Chick and Fred Phelps and verily I say you shall inherit the Earth. Atheist society is in your grasp, gentleman."
Spoken wonderfully, sir (pardon me, I don't know what to call you; I have been told your name is Augustine but that you prefer a nickname?). Laughable as those three men are, they are all quite dangerous to the faith to which they claim membership, I would dare say, the first in particular.
They call me Aj (and it's a word, not initials, though pronounced with two syllables). Augustinus or Augustine is far too formal for most occasions.
It isn't even that they are ruining their own faith - if they represented the end of Protestantism, I'd rejoice. But The Church has yet to draw a line and distance themselves from these hacks, and I fear that in the hearts of the people it would be easy to discount the Faith and Protestantism together in the distaste they have for Protestantism.
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Also, what have you got against animals? I haven't noticed any goats killing each other over differences of opinion, or spiders making war, or dogs locking each other up for life, or birds practicing genital mutilation. Non-human predators don't create rationales of inferiority to justify eating another animal, and they don't stack them in tiny cages and cut off their beaks, either. One could argue that humans are the ones who should be aspiring to the relatively pure morality of the other animals.
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But what animal has ever gazed at the stars and considered that there is something beyond his present existance? What animal has composed, or painted, or sculpted, or written? Do the birds know what they sing, or do they simply let out sounds? Our capacity for evil is overcome only by the Grace God has given us to do good.
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Spoken wonderfully, sir (pardon me, I don't know what to call you; I have been told your name is Augustine but that you prefer a nickname?). Laughable as those three men are, they are all quite dangerous to the faith to which they claim membership, I would dare say, the first in particular.
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It isn't even that they are ruining their own faith - if they represented the end of Protestantism, I'd rejoice. But The Church has yet to draw a line and distance themselves from these hacks, and I fear that in the hearts of the people it would be easy to discount the Faith and Protestantism together in the distaste they have for Protestantism.
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Just kidding. Relax a little, would you?
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