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....and when they're not telling others what to do, what to believe, how to love, who to hate, who to kill, who isn't human, which gender is to be subjugated, which race is acceptable to force into slavery....

Plenty of non-religious hospitals out there, (ever hear of Kaiser
Permanente?) but more religious ones because Catholics (and other greedy religions) realized how much money there is to squeeze out of the desperate and bought many non-religious hospitals and quickly raised the prices across the board. Very few religious hospitals are free, or even non profit.

Only a life spent in subjugation to a non existent deity has no meaning, a life well lived and based in reality has great 'meaning'. Existence is precious. Experience is precious. Knowledge is precious. But a life spent trapped in belief is absolutely worthless and meaningless.

Reminds me of that too, but the religious person is the student that doesn't understand reality.
For it to be the other way around, Dawkins being the student, you must change the analogy to :
'the teacher prayed over his cold hands asking big daddy to warm them, then prayed over his tea asking big daddy to cool it, and because he's in a room warmer than his hands, but colder than his tea, offers the temperature changes as indisputable proof that big daddy listens and follows directions. The student leaves in disgust, as the teacher and big daddy do nothing, yet the teacher claims a 'proven', invisible, all powerful hand of big daddy does his bidding.' Just because you feel like you understand it, doesn't mean you're feeling is valid or true.

The really sad thing is that some can't fathom any meaning in life beyond their own silly beliefs in magic. That's so incredibly sad for them and damaging for us all.

Firstly we didn't ask Stephen Fry for the meaning of life, in fact we didn't ask him anything - a TV show presenter did the asking.

Secondly, the most probable reason for his answer being given so much credit is due to the fact that it's what most people think when considering their own answer to the same question.

No one asked him that. There was not a word in the piece about the meaning of life.

No, you have failed to understand.

But no one has answered my question...why do you ask this performer for the meaning of life and give his answer so much weight?

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By six I had decided that there was no pre-determined "meaning" to life, which is what most people mean by the question. I had not yet learned that, like Tyson, I could derive meaning in learning function, and perhaps that the only real 'meaning' to life is experience.

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This is a classic tautological argument. How do we know these are the only constants that allow for life? Do we have another universe to compare it against? If they mean Earth life, then even dumber.

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