Does it scare you (any atheist) to think there is no life after death?

Question

To CHAMaya: My life is free also, and I have no worries about death. That is the least of my worries.

To Maximus: Thank you for answering my older question. Atheism CAN be legislated... and it is in the form of your words and website.

Answer 1

an atheist is a person who does not believe in the existence of life after death. only the believers have to be afraid what would be their fate after death. an atheist need not be afraid of life after death.

Answer 2

Make the most of this life. A second chance to live again still cannot be proven. The only so-called proof is that someone said so. Notice how many religious leaders don't believe it either. If the Muslim Paradise or the Christian Heaven is such a wonderful place why don't extremists themselves do the suicide bombing? It would put them right in. But they always get a follower to do it saying that they will get the grand reward for doing the leaders dirty work. Death is part of life and it is final. Religions know what they are doing. They sell a second life (that they cannot prove) for billions a year in donations. It sells best to people who haven't had a full life. That's why the largest collection of houses of worship are in poor neighborhoods.

Answer 3

Atheism is the choice you make as a consequence, among other things, of losing the fear of death that characterizes the theist. I am, as a conscious being, grateful for the remarkable sequence of evolutionary events (please, no-one bother concluding that a god was behind any of this - I REALLY have thought about this) that gives rise to my life and I appreciate every day because of it. I do not demand that it goes on forever. *Now* I am alive, and that's the important time. When I die, I die, and there will be nothing to worry about.

Of course I am quite determined not to die until my body gives up on me, whether through illness or accident, so I eat healthily, look both ways when I cross the road, and don't go hunting with Dick Cheney. The thought of missing some part of my children's growing up or of not being there for them at some important time in their lives makes me very anxious to evade death. But it will come, and I want to know I've made my best effort at my one chance of conscious existence. Life is wonderful.

Answer 4

was I scared about where I came from? no, it is the same place. nothing before, and perhaps nothing after. if it is nothing, then all this life will be wiped, and I will not have an awareness of life, so will not miss it.

if there is life after death, I have lived a great life, and any god worth its omnipotence will understand my intentions and thoughts, and acknowledge that my life was indeed well spent.

its a win-win scenario.

either way, I will not wake up Glen on the other side. this carnation is limited to this event I am living. the new me, whether eternally zero, or infinitely aware, will not resemble the me I am now. the flesh of humanity is limited, and why would a newer life that is superior use it?

Answer 5

No Life after death? Christians are kept under control with the old "eternal life" myth...

How can a person continue living after death? It makes no sense whatsoever.

I am a realist and accept that when i die that is it - finsihed. What more do christians want? Life on this earth AND then another eternal life with some imaginary god in some imaginary heaven

Answer 6

The way I look at it...we didn't know anything before coming into the world and so we will know nothing after we leave this life! We are part of the universe and so I would like to think that we will return to (it) as necessary or unperceived!

Answer 7

Death, its one thing I'm not scared of. Since I'm in my search to find out what I beleive in. I can say if I die, I die the end. Why should I worry about that? I won't know/care. If there is an afterlife. Cool, I got a lot of questions to ask!

Answer 8

With a certain lack of afterlife, there is no unknown. You simply cease to perceive, that's all there is to it. Why would it scare me?

Conversely, does it scare you to think that you might have misinterpreted the bible at some point and are actually going to hell, or purgatory? Isn't that far more frightening than nothing?

Answer 9

No!

Atheists do not harbour any 'concepts' of an afterlife. They consider 'this' life to be a gift of nature and thank existence for it! And even if an 'afterlife' were to exist, they just don't give a damn!

The VI World Atheist Conference was held in Vijaywada, India. Some of the objectives of atheism are:



The achievement of universal human rights and promotion of international understanding, based on religious and philosophical freedom.

Complete separation of state and church/religion/philosophy.

Achievement of individual self-determination against traditions as well as religious and philospophical norms.

Promotion of understanding among nations on the base of human rights, especially freedom of religion and philosophy.

Promotion of rational thinking and tolerance and of the ability of individual self-determination.

Accomplishment and promotion of adequate educational, social and cultural institutions (such as secularized kindergartens, schools, church-free hospitals, homes for old people etc.).

Support of humanitarian aid by non-religious and atheists.

Information about nature, function, structures, and claims to power of religions and their institutions.

Answer 10

I am not really an atheist. I certainly think and hope there must be some sort of point to a lot of the love, or suffering or hardships that we go through. There seem to be a lot of psychics and clairvoyants that give some messages to people that don,t seem to be fake, so there must be an afterlife.

Answer 11

Yes, it does, to an extent. After all, if there is really nothing after death, then what exactly are we afraid of?

It would be best to conclude that we are simply afraid of the unknown.