[ndt]

"Why should we care if there is a "meaning of life"? I'm not being rhetorical, I'm really asking."

The question was in response to a specific poster who has a specific view of the nature of life's purpose.

If I were to post the question more generally it would have been. If there is no God (or whatever your religion may be) would you rather know or continue to believe falsely.

Point being, that many are so attached to their belief system as to openly, and I can only assume knowingly, blind themselves to evidence that contradicts it. Someone who is willfully ignorant is more or less a lost cause in terms of having a discussion.

[AndyTheBear]

Someone who is willfully ignorant is more or less a lost cause in terms of having a discussion.

Apologists for naturalism seem to use the human yearning for a meaning to life to dismiss other world views as wishful thinking. Yet they seem to consistently avoid answering the related question I just posed: why would human beings have yearning in the first place?

Theological world views are consistent with this yearning, but naturalism isn't. Thus the naturalists seems to be motivated by a desire for willful ignorance of evidence that undermines their world view.

And yet some of us patiently tolerate them.