It makes no difference, on atheism if you live your life like a Mother Teresa or a Charles Manson. We could all kill ourselves right now and nothing would really change. The point is; if we make no difference to reality, we have no role to play nor purpose to fulfill. And if we have no purpose, it seems impossible to see what value we could have. We are star dust, plain and simple. Sure you might say “we create our own meaning and purpose”. But if our purpose is self-created, how can anyone say who’s purpose is better than others? How can we condemn the terrorist for destroying a bus full of women and children? He gave himself that purpose right? Meaning becomes reduced to the realm of opinion and preference. On materialism/naturalism at least their can be no objective purpose or morality for mankind. Our lives are in a state of pure absurdity and nothing, not even world peace or ending world hunger can save us from our own empty existence.
If I am right, then while atheists/naturalists might believe there is purpose for our lives, they are irrational in believing so. An atheist can (and they often do) give to charity, care for the widows and the orphans, but ultimately they are obeying a set of rules Unless they adopt some view of reality beyond the natural realm of observable phenomena, particles, space and time, I see no way to say that there is something inherently valuable about a person. If naturalism is true, its really uncertain why it is such a bad thing to be irrational in the first place.
Be a Platonist, a Deist, a Pantheist, or a Polytheist, anything is better in terms of value and purpose than naturalism.
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