When death and suffering are way beyond your horizon, it's easy to be an atheists. But what about when death is around the corner or when you are very old. Will you then start believing in a God?
2006-12-18 12:21:20 · 37 answers · asked by sfumato1002 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Who's to say really?? That's a hard one to forecast objectively AND honestly.
But perhaps there might be some validity to what you propose since there's a good number of 'born-again' converts in Death Row according to statistics, you know.
Maybe there should also be a survey done on old folks home, you think? Hmm...
Peace be with you.
2006-12-18 12:31:45 · answer #1 · answered by Arf Bee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I drove a car into a cement wall at 60 mph, and I was quite certain it was the last thing I was ever going to see. In the moments before impact, I never once gave a thought to a god or an afterlife.
The car hit, spun around a few times through oncoming traffic, missed a lightpost, and eventually rolled to a stop in the woods on the side of the parkway. I got out, looked at the smoking wreck, the blood on my arm, shrugged my shoulders and thought, "wow, I can't believe I didn't die."
I still don't believe in god, and I never will.
How's that for conviction?
2006-12-18 12:43:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fundamentally, you misunderstand the atheist viewpoint. You think we see the world through the same lens as you. We don't. When you realize that death is the end, it always remains the end, because nothing about the world changes to change that perspective. So I won't start looking around for an afterlife or a god to look after me when my death is approaching. I'm simply not afraid enough of death, now or in the distant future, to mind that life won't continue. It won't, and that's an end of it.
2006-12-18 12:47:58 · answer #3 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No not at all. Put it this way, when you realise there is no afterlife will you become an athiest. Im quite comfortable with the idea that eventually we all die and become compost are you? Is the reason you believe in a God to spare the thought that at the point of death there is nothing?
2006-12-18 12:33:36 · answer #4 · answered by A_Geologist 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll have better things to do.
Are you planning to see the light and believe in Odin? It really is the same question you know. When it comes to the several thousand other gods, you are as much of an atheist as me.
2006-12-18 12:30:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As the old saying goes " there are no atheists in a fox hole".
It really depends on the person them self.Some cry out to God and some don't.
2006-12-18 12:47:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll look back to the life I lived. The dreams I fulfilled, and smile. Death is only scary to those who never lived. I will live on in my future children and grand children. I will give them all the strength, guidance, and love I have until the day I die.
2006-12-18 12:25:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would like to believe that wouldn't you idiot. I actually knew a preacher who lied when he preached the funeral of an Atheist and said he way saved to please the guys family. But he wasn't saved hes going to hell right along with the rest of us Atheist. God Bless Kisses Betty.
2006-12-18 12:31:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one comes to God except the Spirit of God draws him or her. Thus depending on the call of God the answer could be yes or no!
2006-12-18 12:25:15 · answer #9 · answered by M B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am an atheist and I don't think my views on God will ever change. I feel that when we die, our spirit goes into another body, but we don't remember our old life. Sort of like reincarnation. And no, I'm not crazy (or bipolar). Good luck finding an answer to your atheist question.
2006-12-18 12:24:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋