McGrath understands the foundational atheist perspective to be this: "Since science discloses no meaning to the universe, the only reasonable conclusion is that there is no meaning to find."
Here, yet again, is the unkillable myth, the persistent blind spot about atheism that apparently no amount of explaining can make go away. No matter how lucidly atheists explain in books, essays and blog posts that, yes, life can and does for us have meaning without God, the tsunami of claims about atheists' arid existence rolls on and on.
Where does this persistent (is it also willful?) misunderstanding come from?
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(1) Where indeed does the myth that atheists have no meaning in their lives come from?
(2) Is the myth that atheists have no meaning in their lives a product of willful misunderstanding? Why or why not