Naturalism a wonderless view?

One thing that theists seem to accuse me of is that because of my lack of belief in the supernatural and belief in only proven things and my personal philosophy of questioning everything means I must have a boring and unimaginative worldview.

They tell me because I don't believe in a God I have a hollow existence and I'm only limited to the physical world means I have no purchase and that my view is extremely limiting and narrow.I'm also told that it is extremely pessimistic, because I view humans as animals and their is no way we can rise above it to be something great or good.

This is a ridiculous statement and I will tell you why.

First,I argue that it is the religious view not the naturalist view that is limiting. In a religious view you are limited to books,scriptures and priest that you are not allowed to question and many times they contract one another. Can you imagine what they world would be like if the never questioned anything? What if people never questioned slavery was wrong? Racism,sexism,rape and child exploitation if we never questioned them they would have never been seen as immoral.

I would like to point out that many religious texts teach that these thing are O.K and even give instructions or advice on how to do it.

In contrast the naturalistic worldview encourages constant questioning and exploring.This view is far from narrow because their are an endless amount of things to learn, things to explore and discover and endless ways to see the world. We know far more than we did one hundred years ago or ten years ago. We will also know more in ten or one hundred years. It is a constantly expanding view and far from narrow.

Is a naturalist worldview pessimistic compared to to a religious. After all according to naturalism where just a bunch of animals.

Wrong!

As a girl who loves and hangs around animals more than people.I would say a lot of times I feel like they have more sense than most people but, I'll discuss this another time.I don't understand why religious people seem to be so insulted by being related to animals and not being created in the image of the divine creator. It seems stuck up to me.Is it really that evil to be related to animal we're made a living off them for thousands of years and they provide good companions.

Scientist have called dolphins non-human people and test have shown morality to be found in many animals according to research and people who work closely with animals.

If you have read the New Testament you will discover that the Biblical God murders thousands and orders the Hebrews to committed genocide against innocent tribes. Remember in Exodus when he murder the Egyptian children for what the Pharaoh did.

I would be far more honored to be related to common house cat than I would to that tyrant.

You say that the natural worldview has no hope and it shows no hope for humankind.
That's bullshit!

All religion follows the same pattern their is something wrong with being human and that religion shows the way to be right and moral. We can only become good by an outside source.

I guess it fits with human nature we don't want to take responsibility for our actions so we look for an outside source to blame. That is the source of our devils and demons so we can blame something else instead of confronting our nature head on and trying to solve it.

Religion is a pessimistic worldview because it says humanity can only be moral or saved by an outside source.This has not worked one the thousand of empires and kingdoms founded on faith where their has been so much corruption and injustice. If religion could build a paradise it would have done so already it has been given many opportunities and has failed every time.

We need to stopped thinking an outside force is going to save us. In the end we are all responsible for ourselves and for other people.

Every force in human history is because of human action both good and bad.

In the end we are our own Gods and devils.