The Human Predicament

I will address such issues in the following rounds. IntroductionThe Human Predicament I think is a fantastic way of describing the absurdity of life without God. For everybody reading this that is not a Theist, please leave your emotion behind and follow the logic that I will present and then decide if there is truth to this claim or not. I understand that saying if you are not a Theist than you cannot be objectively happy or consistent in your worldview can be offensive. So please read this debate from a purely logical unbiased view and listen to the argument I will present with an open mind. Defining objective meaning, value, and purposeFirst off what do I mean when I’m talking about objective happiness? Like I stated before objective happiness must be based on objective realities. Objective realities such as objective meaning, value, and purpose will generate objective happiness. MeaningObjective meaning would be a sense of worth that cannot be taken away by point of views due to it being objective. The worth would be measured or dictated by God for it to be objective. Therefore objective happiness in relation to meaning would be your acknowledgment that you are a creation of God, and therefore your life has objective meaning. ValueObjective value would be based on the sliding scale of good and evil, and where one can reside on that scale. The presence of objective morals that could come from God would then dictate an objective moral standard creating what is called good and evil. Therefore objective value would come from the acknowledgement of ones position on this scale of objective morality. Objective happiness in relation to value would then be if you found yourself on the side of good rather than evil. I am not saying that one cannot be happy here if they prefer evil, but the fact remains that it is their happiness with the position they have attained on the objective moral landscape that justifies their happiness to be objective. PurposeObjective purpose would be from acknowledging the purpose dictated to you by God. Whether you are working toward your purpose, or have already achieved your purpose does not matter. The knowledge that you had, or have an objective purpose for your life lets you then base your happiness on that objective purpose. Why is the ability to be objectively happy contingent on the existence of God? Objectivity by definition means that it is unchanging regardless of position, point of view, or opinion. God provides us with this objectivity. The Theist’s God is unchanging regardless of anything else in the physical, and the metaphysical world. God is external from man and the creator of man. Due to us being his creation he can dictate what our objective meaning, value, and purposes are. Our impressions and self-proclaimed notions of what these three ideas actually mean is irrelevant, because God created us with these in mind prior to our creation. We can have subjective ideas pertaining to these ideas and have relative happiness, but when speaking in the realm of objectivity our opinions hold no water. What this debate is notThis debate is not about the existence of God. This debate is simply stating that if God is true, then objective happiness can be achieved. Therefore the opposite would be implied that if Atheism is true then objective happiness cannot be achieved. For all we know God might not exist and Con’s position of Agnosticism or Atheism could be true. However this is irrelevant in that we are not debating the existence of God. We are debating that an Atheist cannot have objective happiness if he wants to remain consistent with his worldview. So whether you believe in God or not is of no consequence in this debate, because God is not the conclusion of the argument, but an Atheist being locked into the Human Predicament is. Opening arguments conclusionWithout God we do not have an objective foundation for meaning, value, and purpose. Therefore we do not have the ability to have objective happiness. This is not to say one can’t be happy, but his/her happiness without God will be subjective in that there is no external dictator, and even more relevant, no entity that created us with these concepts in mind for our existence to give us the truth behind them. If an Atheist chooses to be objectively happy, it is only possible that he lie about his worldview, and at some level of consciousness except God. If he does this he is no longer consistent with his worldview of Atheism and has personified what we call “The Human Predicament.