I mean if you're a SERIOUS atheist, of the John Gray / Richard Dawkins school. If you've rid yourself of not only the belief in a deity, but of all the other hangovers of faith (the essential nobility of Man, the concept of the soul, eternal life, the myth of human progress, the anthropocentric view of the universe, etc) then does the awareness that you are essentially just a group of interdependent biological systems working together to propagate genetic material, and the knowledge that, when those systems stop functioning, your ability to experience consciousness and sensation will simply end, mean that you have no longer have anything to fear from the end of your life?
2007-03-13
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