Quote:
“Someone on another board wondered how we could be atheists, as without any afterlife to look forward to, life is without purpose”

Unfortunately, life might be without inherent meaning (existential atheists) or it might be without a meaning we can understand (existential theists).

Either way, the human desires for logic and immortality are futile, and we are obliged to define our own meanings.

In this existence the answer...is plain, but it so upsets most of us that we cannot face the answer.

There is no reason for life and life has no meaning except to the individual self.