Does life have no meaning without religion?

Thoughts = yes.

Answer to your question = no.

I've never had religion in my life and I like to think my life is pretty meaningful. Happy, even.

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It seems to me, that if you read the news, religion has brought a lot of meaning to people.............................death, destruction, terrorism, subjugation of women, control over young children by pedophiles. All in all, religion has had quite an effect on peoples' lives!

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What do you mean by 'meaning'? Do you mean purpose, or goal?

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BB, there are those who'd tell you that ultimately, life has no meaning without God (God is not = "religion"). What do you yourself think? Are you finding that life limited to only what the world offers is rather insipid? Or what motivated that question? Very Happy

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If you mean an inherent purpose, then probably no.

If you mean meaning as in importance, then I would say that the importance of life is independent of religion.

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With Ray on this.

The importance of life stems from the perceived importance of life of the experiencer.

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I do not place the value or meaning of my life within the realms and reigning in of religion and its assorted limitations. If you ask instead of religion about some sort of spiritual contact or belief then I will have an entirely different range of thought. Without my spiritual existence then I cease to function beyond the basics since feeling would then cease to exist for me. Religion is a rather queer thing. I was raised Maniacal Methodist and had the opportunity to visit other Churches as a child which gave me a broader view of life and restrictions. What I walked away with was the knowledge that all religions as such can be guidemaps towards a connection between a human being and their soul and the Divine Power which they figure had a major part in the creation of the Universe. Keep in mind however that guidemaps are also given out freely to those who profess no religious ties.

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I am an atheist, and my life has meaning to me.

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someone told me that people without religions are barbarian.

Religions are somehow necessary for cultures, but I believe in science.

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onben wrote:

someone told me that people without religions are barbarian. .

The Brownshirt barbarians were HIGHLY religious, onben. But it was pure Paganism.

onben wrote:

Religions are somehow necessary for cultures, but I believe in science.

I believe in science, too, onben----when it doesn't presume to judge beyond its purview, in other words, when it sticks to the empirical realm. As soon as it starts horning into topics like origins or whether or not the universe is a closed system, then it ceases to be "science," and becomes "scientism" (a pseudo-metaphysics).

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Here is what ultimately happens when you depend on other people for meaning in your life:

http://www.epochtimes.com/i3/2003-2-20-628-pic06.jpg

"Aschenblume" by Anselm Kiefer. A deconstruction of an Albert Speer-designed hall. Installed in the Museum of Modern Art. Ft. Worth, TX.

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Is life meaningful without philosophy, art, and science? In their absence we have barbarism, with or without religion.
-edited: "with" changed to "without."

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coluber2001 wrote:

Here is what ultimately happens when you depend on other people for meaning in your life:

"Aschenblume".... Ash flower.....Hmmnnn, interesting word; very a propos of what happened to a whole nation when they followed after a false Messiah. The flower of civilization, Germany, turned to cinders.

But that aside, Coluber: please elaborate on what you mean. (I myself agree that depending on other people for meaning in your life is ultimately futile and disappointing; God is the only one.)

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Does life have no meaning without religion?
Religion is dependant upon life; while life, in my understanding, is not dependant upon religion, without life, there would be no religion.

Life has no meaning, if it does, someone can tell me what it means.

Just because all words have meaning, doesn't mean that what the word means, has to mean anything. Do you know what I mean?

I would rephrase the question to, "Does life still have no meaning without religion".