[MarchHare]

Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen

I'd argue the opposite. It's atheists who believe that life doesn't matter. We're random chance and when we die it's over, all of us will die and everything we did will be for naught. Hiding in a foxhole is counterintuitive to that, it's trying to preserve a meaningless life. Of course that could be argued that we can't get over the self-preservation trait we've received through millenniums of evolution, but it's only non-atheists that believe life has meaning. To try and protect it seems to be more aligned with non-atheist beliefs than atheist beliefs.

You're confusing atheism with nihilism. I'm an atheist, but I very much value my limited time alive and hope to leave the Earth in a better state than when I was born into it.

"I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides."
-Carl Sagan