If life after death were indeed a fact would you be living differently y?

Answer 1

Morality is needed to live and to be happy. You could not live like an animal, even if you wanted to. You would die. You want to see why?

An animal kills by instinct whether because it must eat or because it is its nature and it must sharpen its hunting skills by chasing and killing even when it is not hungry. An animal is not a conceptual being, so killing is not an action it can consider either good or bad.

Humans have evolved to acquire a conceptual brain and this means that they have the capacity to understand cause and effect and imagine consequences in the future. For example, early humans realized that cooperating with each other brought great benefit for their survival: friends are good, enemies are bad. The ability to distinguish friends from enemies were important moral abstractions. It meant that lying or cheating a friend would change you from friend to enemy. Humans soon understood that they had to live with certain rules. Animals never could come up with abstract rules.

The most fundamental moral precept is understand which actions are beneficial for one's life and which are detrimental. That's where the whole base of morality is. Making friends is moral because it is beneficial to your life. Making enemies is not. helping someone is a way to spread the idea that it is better to live among benevolent people than indifferent people. Stealing, on the other hand, might appear a clever way to prosper at the expense of someone else, but that means paying the price of escaping being recognized as an enemy. It might work for a while, but what kind of people would you have to choose to be your friends? They would have to agree with your moral code. They would also have to be thieves. Do thieves build good trusting relationships? If a person reasons that stealing is a good way to live, why not steal from your friends when the opportunity arises? Can someone be consistently honest with some people and consistently dishonest with others? Trouble comes when one has gone too far and is not trusted by anyone. All of this shows that morality comes from reasoning, not from divine revelation. It is needed for living happily. Life without it is a nightmare.

So, the fear of punishment in a life after death is the way of telling people who can't reason why they should be honest in this life. That's a poor way to teach morality to children. Faith in the fear of the Almighty is a poor teacher and it doesn’t work with intelligent people. Bank robbers use their intelligence to pull off a robbery, the same intelligence they could use if they were taught why morality is a better way to live happily.

Happy New Reasoning Year! This year Trust in Reason!
It's a tool that works.

Answer 2

No. As an atheist only two things can happen: 1) Death and nothing else; 2) Hell.

If there were indeed life after death, I'd rather go to Hell than Heaven. In Heaven I'd be another drone of happiness surrounded by theists *shudders*. Hell would be more interesting and my personality would stay intact.

Answer 3

Not enough info to go by there. In most cases no, or at least not significantly different.

Answer 4

Yes.

Answer 5

Give it time. You'll find out.

Answer 6

What do you mean?