Agobot writes:
I can see us becoming more and more nihilistic, in a meaningless life, but how do we deal with our descendants? There are an awful lot of people out there that rely on their faith in God to keep on living. If we kill their faith, would they still have the desire to live and bear the hardships of life when they start opening their eyes and realise that we are completely alone in this meaningless, bleak, cold and irrelevant nonsense?
I'm not sure that "nihilisitic" is really what "we're" becoming. Maybe existentialist or something but I think saying nihilist might be going a bit far.
I don't think we should kill faith in general. I think we should fight for reason and fairness be employed in decisions regarding us, but outside of any infringing on that I don't think we should set out to kill faith. I don't think it's anyone's job to go de-converting people from thier religious beliefs. If they want to logically discuss them, I will offer my thoughts to them, but I won't go out looking to change them. If they lose their religious beliefs through reasoned discussion, then so be it, and hopefully they won't see their lives as meaningless. But I don't think it's anyone's job to protect those people from arguments that might change their view of the world.
Also, can "faith" actually be killed? If someone really has religious faith, then isn't this perceivced knowledge that transcends reason? Can a reasoned argument serve to kill actual faith then? Perhaps many have "faith", but it is still partly based on reason, so they could eventually be suceptible to well reasoned arguments.
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