Just being curious I saw 30 days on FX last night. The show was about an atheist woman living with a christian family. I am neither christian or atheist but I am curious if atheists have any believe in an afterlife. I understand they do not believe in a higher being.
2006-08-10 03:59:49 · 23 answers · asked by Nelly 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm an atheist and I don't know. No one has ever returned from a prolong period of death with photos so we just don't know. We don't pretend to know everything about something which we couldn't know anything about.
2006-08-10 04:04:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems 30 days likes to take people from various religions and philosophies and toss them in with Christians. The Wicca episode comes to mind here.
As to your question, atheists vary; if you include Buddhists in with Atheists, then many believe in both reincarnation and an end result. If you stick to the mostly-Western atheism, then there is assumed to be no afterlife for the same reasons posited for no deity: no evidence supporting the idea, and so the contrary is asserted.
2006-08-10 04:28:36 · answer #2 · answered by Babs 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On stability i could say there is no afterlife different than what you go away in this earth interior the way of thoughts and your little ones. As to immaterial dimensions at one time there have been many stuff that recognized unusual and unexplainable different than with the aid of some length which replaced into mysterious. progressively we've been able to describe lots of those issues a lot of what replaced into as quickly as some immaterial length has been defined. there are of direction issues that are curiously immaterial such what's the substance on which easy and radio waves return and forth. We call it the ether. i'm confident that sooner or later that's going to be defined. there is unquestionably the huge one that's bio-geneses. yet even that's progressively being explored and sooner or later, i'm confident, we'd be able to describe the chemistry of that. of direction it would not somewhat remember in case you have faith interior the after existence or not as no person is somewhat going to correctly known one way or the different till they die
2016-10-01 21:49:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
True, they do not believe in a divine being. No one can claim that anyone knows that there is an afterlife at all, or what it would be like. So far all I've ever heard are dreams, speculation, and wishful thinking. I don't know what will happen, but I surely hope it isn't anything as cruel or unjust as the conservative Christian view.
2006-08-10 04:06:11 · answer #4 · answered by Scott M 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The only thing all atheists have in common is that they don't believe in God.
There may be some sort of "afterlife," I'm really not sure. If there is, I would very much doubt that we retain any recognizable sort of consciousness.
2006-08-10 04:05:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically, buddhists are atheists, and they believe in reincarnation.
I can't speak for other atheists because we aren't a belief system with a single set of mutual beliefs, but I think when I die I rot. And that is that. And there is no such thing as a soul, my personality and conscience are merely a product of the interaction of the neurons in my brain. So my personality / conscience / soul die with me.
I suspect the vast majority of atheists would agree with that.
2006-08-10 04:04:21 · answer #6 · answered by the last ninja 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The view is that there is no afterlife.
I certainly understand the desire to make something up so that people feel better about death, but in my opinion it is better to be realistic.
2006-08-10 04:07:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No typically they don't believe in afterlife, but rather "the meaning of the earth" as man overcoming itself. At least that is one flavour of it.
2006-08-10 04:07:38 · answer #8 · answered by Gangantuan-Megalopolis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask yourself what it was like before you were born. You don't know because you were not here. You weren't just hanging out in some mystical place waiting to be born. I think when you die and are no longer here, it is the same as before you were born and were not here. There is just nothing
2006-08-10 04:04:11 · answer #9 · answered by advgman52 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can you imagine that , nothingness after you die . What a shame , all those souls going to Sheol and never seeing their own salvation . Don't let that happen to you , believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved . John 14:6
2006-08-10 04:07:48 · answer #10 · answered by robinhoodcb 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋