That isn’t to say some degree of secularism’s bad (or good). Atheism does have some advantages, the biggest problem might be the inability to know and do what’s wrong from what’s right. Many world religions have some kind of morality and law for people to abide by and what to do. Abrahamic religions, especially if some sects like Alevi Islam may’ve been syncretism, provide a better outline for human morality.
It’s like there’s a study stating like punitive religions make people adhere better to those beliefs in order to do good helped by prosleytising for better or worse (I remember it). I can’t speak for Buddhism and Hinduism as I know little of them so to speak. Like I said, atheism may not always be bad especially if somebody’s been abused before. But that it’s inability to understand things can lead to a rather existentialist outlook.
Existentialism is practically about a person’s free will albeit in relation to an incomprehensible environment.Waiting for Godot’s considered to be one of the classic existentialist plays as characters spend their time waiting for nothing/nobody. An atheist’s attempt at understanding a divinity’s existence if you will. Hinduism and Buddhism aren’t any better but at least provide a guideline and meaning.
Christianity and Alevi Islam believe in a happy ending after so much misfortune, especially with a hero’s arrival. Existentialism’s not always atheist and vice versa but that existentialism easily lends itself to atheism. It’s up to humans to deciding things instead of finding meaning in the supernatural.
Soren Kierkegaard‘s the one who gave us the term existentialism but is actually a Christian himself. He even thought that Christianity’s a life to be lived predating the later Evangelicals as well as being in line with Christian (and Islamic) mysticism to be closer to God/Allah.
Existentialism, via Jean Paul Sartre, came to be associated with atheism in finding authenticity (going well with atheism’s tendency to discredit supernatural beliefs) though it’s also got drawbacks like profound dread over human actions and constant despair. Some religions at least have a concept of afterlife, good and bad, as well as karma to warn people of their actions.
That I think might explain the problem with atheism.
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