My life is meaningful to me I am learning all the time. People talk about god and heaven but I see a lot of hellish stuff going on around me and am determined not to add to that mess.

Meaning is a concept. Life, or an event with a life, has meaning if we think it does. We make meaning - it is not bestowed upon us by God or the Universe.

More meaningful than with it ~

NOTHING IN ME BELIEVED ANY OF IT, ever, EVER. If THIS was God, I wanted no part in it. They lost me at Abraham and Isaac. Religion is unhealthy, looking at the suffering Christ is appalling, does no one any good, everyone is repressed and nuts. It teaches you to hate yourself and creates some sick shit. No thank you. I live in Waco if I die here, cause of death, drowning in hypocrisy.

Life w/ religions lacks meaning... Living ones life in fantasies is not living. The joy of finding things out, living your life w/o superstition... real purpose, transcendence, being able and willing to "tell your story". Rationality is a pre-qualifier to a life of meaning.

I follow no religion; my life is steeped in meaning, in joy, and in curiosity. Curiosity makes life very interesting.

YES, without it is better, it's stupid, all these stories to control people. Without religion I am free to believe in DNA, in science, much better than smoke and mirrors. OR JOEL OLSTEEN. Puke.

I think you create the meaning in your life, with or without the help of religion. It's your life, your experience. When it ends, that is it. You may be remembered for a while afterwards.

Absolutely, I feel like I live fully everyday, I don't take anything for granted and I take time to enjoy everything about the life I have now. I do not need the comfort of fantasizing about an afterlife. What I have now is enough. I am also motivated to do more to change the world for the better while I can.

My favorite response to this question is from Dan Barker from his book "The Life Driven Purpose."

"There is no purpose OF life. There is purpose IN life."

You create your own meaning in life. Religion is literally pepole doing that very thing.

So yes you don't need religion to have meaning in your life.

yes of course. you just need to find what is going to have meaning for you in your life. life is like an orange. squeeze it as hard as you can and get every last drop outta it. enjoy life as best as you can. i find i actually appriciate my life more knowin i have only one chance to leave my mark. i do good for the sake of goodness sake and not bc i think itll buy myway into a heaven.

Yes, just because you are not a "true believer" doesn't mean that life can't be enjoyed. Life has it's ups and downs but if you let the downs get to you you will miss out on t he beauty that is out there.

Test: Put your under water. If life has no meaning, you will have no trouble breathing in the water and staying under. Organically, we want to live. Intellectual lying makes us feel a loss of meaning. Be honest with your body. It wants to live and will fight death in the end or very close to it. Not happy with yourself? Find an external focus that does bring meaning to you. Choose wisely, you cannot expect to control the object of that external focus. Disappointment is always possible. Be prepared to accept it for what it is. External and secondary to your own existence.

Life can certainly be meaningful without religion. But, I believe, that you have to find the meaning on your own, rather than being spoon fed by any one religion. Those who do have thought about it long and hard and made their own decisions are on a much more stable foundation than others that rely on only on 'faith.'

Yes! You learn to just make the best of this life, instead of want this life to hurry up and be over to get to the next life. That’s how I see it, anyway.

to put it in ONE word only, YES.

Life without religion is meaningful. I know healthy, well adjusted people who describe themselves as atheist, agnostic, secular, humanist, naturalist and skeptic. For non-believers, we try to do good, not because we hope for "heaven" but because we feel better when we are being decent, honest and kind.

I find it to be equally meaningless with or without religion.

Life is more meaningful and more beautiful without it. we can take joy and pride in our accomplishment and the accomplishments of others; we can do good knowing we do it because we want to, and not for an ulterior motive of gain.

Since Birth!!!!

I am living proof!!!!

Yes.

There really is no "meaning" to life. Life is just life & it is mostly painful. Religion is just something we are, as my brother puts it, "hard wired" to believe in. We are very fearful creatures because, as a mammal, we are one of the weakest. Without our weapons & technology, we would still be in the food chain. Once we developed weapons, we removed ourselves from those dangers & now here we are; an egomanical lunatic in the white house wanting to start a war so he can feel like his life has meaning & he has a big dick. My major request in life is that there be NO reincarnation. I NEVER want to live again. For me, human life is boring.

Yes! More meaningful because we can live for today and hope to help other generations and even our own to extend life, travel and learn what once were unspeakable imaginations and we can always hope, not have faith, but have hope we might get some other kind civilization to enlighten us so that we can be a better species as Religion has torn us apart and made borders...simple lines in dirt that cause death and tribalism and destruction.
We can also find peace in death because we know that even as it is the end, we were lucky enough to experience it.
I wish you all peace and love.