Excellent point. I've noticed that myself.
Of course people who don't believe in ultimate meaning seem to have an ultimate meaning of their own.
Excellent point. I've noticed that myself.
Free Republic has its own share of crusading atheists who celebrate the Grand Teleological Story of Science. Marx' "omega point" was a classless society. I guess atheist FReepers' is Randian Superman stomping the hoi polloi into nothingness.
One could even make the point that just as the Covenant of Sinai validated the Genesis narrative of Creation (since only G-d Himself actually witnessed those events), so the great slaughter is often used to vindicate the theory of ultimate meaninglessness and the completely random nature of creation. After all, people who believe in Meaning kill Jews; therefore belief in Meaning must be discouraged lest more Jews be killed. Never mind that these opponents of Meaning never seem to lack for motivation for any number of "progressive" moral/ethical crusades.