On 3/18/07, John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And most atheists I know would also disagree with your view of why atheists don't build cathedrals. If time really is only one lifetime long (for each of us), most atheists I know want to leave the world a bit better than they found it, leave something behind that has some connection between past and future, precisely because limited time makes it too precious to waste just sitting around.
This sounds plausible, even fits my own case (though I'm more agnostic than atheist, it's a big universe out there). But, if it is true, where are the atheists' cathedrals? The only good answer I can think of is Eastern Europe, former USSR, maybe China. Does the Great Hall of the People count? John -- John McCreery The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN Tel. +81-45-314-9324 http://www.wordworks.jp/
