What does atheism reinforce about the significance of existence, life?
Part II of II
...You now become responsible for your own actions, for they will affect you in the hereafter.
Under atheism, you have no responsibility to the Causative Force for you do not have any direct impact upon Her.
Is life significant? Yes, but only in a limited way.
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Atheism differs from panentheism regarding responsibility.
Under panentheism, you exist within the Causative Force.
As such, you have a responsibility not only to yourself but to the Causative Force.
By being within the Causative Force, you impact the Causative Force as well as yourself through your behavior.
This form of existence, panentheism, places the highest form of significance upon life.
In addition, panentheism places the highest form of responsibility upon existence, life.
Understanding this concept would force us as individuals and as a species into protecting life and journeys through life as the ultimate responsibility.
Under the concept of panentheism, life becomes so significant that it actually impacts upon the Causative Force Herself.
The value of a life, the value of existence, reaches a new height of significance which translates into new behavior patterns directed at the individual.
All this is generated from the debate over the size of the Causative Force beginning with the idea of no size at all, or nonexistence of the Causative Force, atheism.
Behavior in life tends to rise to the level of its responsibility.
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