Humanism has the Answer

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by Not Insane

If there is no divine input, nothing has purpose. A thing can not give itself purpose. It can only believe it can give itself purpose. At the end of the day, if there is no God, no man has purpose and mankind itself has no purpose. You can rape, kill and pillage without consequence other than more powerful people killing or enslaving you for doing it. And you're gonna die no matter what you do anyway. Life is truly and utterly pointless. Giving it some sort of purpose in your mind can keep you sane, but without a creator and purpose, that is only playing games with what is real.

Humanism is a dead end philosophy.

A code of ethics that serves all needn't rely on a religious basis, and might be an improvement for using religion to justify unethical behavior.
For instance;

"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions… (and) when his own preservation comes not in competition, ought he, as much as he can, to preserve the rest of mankind, and may not, unless it be to do justice on an offender, take away, or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another."
John Locke