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Mary,

Yes, life can have meaning for a freethinker. I can’t give you a short rationale here, but see my following books and videos (click the hyperlinks), which argue in favor of free will and a rational approach to ethics:

<A href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0970105533/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vamf_taft_p1_i1">Free Will and Human Life</A> (2021 book): After examining philosophical, theological, and scientific arguments against and for free will, this book concludes that a secular, scientific basis for free will exists. See the book description in the hyperlinked Amazon webpage for further information.

<A href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P-WHwP9ocM&amp;t=10s">“Free Will and Human Life”</A> (2021 YouTube lecture): Summary of some of the principal themes of Free Will and Human Life.

<A href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/097010555X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i3">Reason and Human Ethics</A> (2022 book): This book argues that a secular, biological, teleological basis of human ethics exists and that reasoning and critical thinking about both ends and means are essential to human ethics. It examines how these principles apply in the contexts of individual ethics, social ethics, citizen ethics, media ethics, and political ethics.

<A href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3wpZVv3ca8&amp;t=13s">“Reason and Human Ethics”</A> (2022 YouTube lecture): Summary of some of the principal themes of Reason and Human Ethics.

I hope this helps.

Alan E. Johnson 
Independent Philosopher, Historian, Political Scientist, and Legal Scholar 
Website: <A href="https://alanjohnson.academia.edu/">https://alanjohnson.academia.edu/</A>

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