Is it true Atheists have no place to call home?

Question

Is this true? Where do you go when you die? Heaven? Hell? Or do you float aimlessly through space?

Answer 1

Considering atheists don't believe in heaven or hell...we just die. That's it. But I don't spend my life thinking about where I will be going after I die. It seems a lot of religious folk spend most of their time worrying about that. I prefer to live life to the fullest.

Answer 2

The same place everything else that dies goes, back into the soil to continue the cycle of life. Of course, with infinity, there are an infinite amount of things that can happen in the future. Maybe those that are most desireable will be remade.
You can live a positive life following many of the guidances of religions without actually believing in God. God is just the catalyst to help some people use their selfish want to go to heaven in order to be a good person. Some persons can be good just using their logic to help others, because if others do the same we'd be better off.
What kind of God would send someone to hell for not believing in them. Not everyone was born into a life that will be touched by your religion. You think your God is going to send them to Hell for not knowing about him?
Quit being so self-righteous and go learn something useful in college.

Answer 3

We die. You die. "Die" means you don't GO anywhere any more.
We know we will die. But you don't really believe you will die, do you? Right there we have the essence of your adherence to a myth.

You can accept reality when it comes to other life forms, and know that when they stop living, they rot away (if not eaten first). But you can't accept that you are just another animal, or that you evolved from other life forms. Because you need the big lie, the big self deception, that somehow you will live for all eternity.

But of course that's ridiculous. Home? Earth is your only home, you had no home before you were born, and you will have none when you are dead.

There's a saying from the old West as follows: “We’re all travelers in this world, from the sweetgrass to the packing house. Birth till death, we travel between the eternities.”

That pretty much says it all.

Answer 4

We don't really think about it, we live our life as best we can and as honestly we can in the only way we know how.

In the end, well, it's the end of one adventure and who knows what lies beyond. I for one will welcome the challenge. If it is Heaven, I will have some questions for the big guy, if it's Hell man the Devil is going to hear an ear full from me and if it's nothingness, a void or just cease to exist, then I guess I'm glad I lived my life as best as I can.

I have no idea, I focus on my life, enjoy myself and be a good person

Answer 5

This atheist believes this is what happens after death:

Consciousness leaves the body. And Consciousness experiences a feeling of integrity and wholeness and safeness. And then its attracted to what is universally described as an incredibly beautiful clear bright light. The reason this light is so beautiful is because this light is your true nature. Sometime after this 'your' consciousness 'selects' a new living body.

This is from near death experiences and there are Buddhist monks trained to go into this near death experience. They are also trained to help people release their consciousness at the time of death from the material world. There are actual Buddhist guide books on this.

Answer 6

So if an atheist dies and that's it...they don't find out there was a heaven and they don't know they missed anything so nothing really lost there. Who says if there really is a heaven that they won't let atheists in? Your 2000 yr old book that's been translated a hundred times and nobody can find the original?

Answer 7

I do have a home thanks and im currently paying the mortgage on it, so where you get that sort of information from I really dont know. Did your pastor tell you this. Gees you really must learn to take things with a pinch of salt or else you will be running around with a bunch of wild delusional thoughts in your head.

Now when I die, depending on circumstance into my death, I initially will be placed in the morgue, then transported to the undertakers for a few days of freshening up. (unless they decide to use me for trainee doctors which would then take a few days longer to get to the undertakers.) After that, I get tucked in nice and cosy into a coffin and then travel up to the cemetery. A hole is dug in the ground, me and my coffin are placed inside and the hole is filled up with the dirt they just dug up. I lay there for many many years slowly rotting away and being munched on by worms, bugs, even plant roots until a few thousand years later I get dug up by some future archaeologist trying to pinch my wedding ring. My bones are then cleansed and placed in a glass panelled box displayed in a museum. After I while, they get bored and my bones will get packaged away and stored in a dark cupboard somewhere until someone again in the future takes me out for public viewing.

Answer 8

Utah. Dixie National Forest.

Answer 9

I often wonder what the motivation is to ask questions like this. I do not believe in Santa, the Easter bunny or God. Where does anything go after it dies. You can either be cremated and be dust on the planet or you can decompose and be nutrients for the planet. So enjoy your one ticket to the planet as a living creature.. Enjoy life...

Answer 10

They don't care. Athiests believe that once they are dead, that's it. They are worm food and have no conscience thought or care about Heaven, Hell or the pine box they are buried in. Kaput. In a way, it is a liberating philosophy.