A purpose derived from a false premise that a deity has ordained submission to his will cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals solving our worlds problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.
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