what do you belive will happen after you die, like heaven or hell or different?

Answer 1

Is there an afterlife??? Consider this:

Fact: the human race has been around for hundreds of thousands of years.

Fact: the concepts of an afterlife, of gods, spirits, etc. have only been around for a few millenia.

Fact: these concepts were invented and promulgated by ignorant barbarians as an attempt to explain the world around them, before there was a such thing as science or epistemology.

Fact: most of the books of the bible were written by people who were never there, as second- or third-hand accounts decades or even centuries after the events they claim to tell about.

Fact: the books of the bible have been heavily edited over the centuries, with passages or even whole books being re-written or omitted to fit the theological and political climates of the time.

Fact: the books of the bible have also been subject to extensive errors, misinterpretations, and differences of opinion in interpretation as they are translated from one language to another and from that to yet another language.

Knowing all this, how can ANY religion be viewed as anything BUT the invention of men? I know this may not be what you want to hear, and I doubt I'll do much harm to your faith; faith is remarkably impervious to reason.

But we atheists are nothing like what the church leaders are fond of charicaturing us as. We are freethinking individuals who are able to see the Big Picture without the blinders of religion. We do not live in despair, quite the contrary; freethought is incredibly refreshing, liberating, and empowering. We are not nihilists, but lovers of life who see it as all the more precious because there's no eternal afterlife.

We do not need the bribe of heaven or the threat of hell to be good people, we believe in being good for its own sake. Through science and reason, we know more about the true nature of the world we live in than your religion could ever hope to offer.

We are not your enemy. Our quarrel is with irrationality, wishful thinking, superstitions, intellectual dishonesty, and all other forms of thinking that keep mankind mired in darkness, ignorance and hate.................!

Answer 2

It is my firm belief that humans can be described as sophisticated machines thus something makes us tick as with every living, sentient being. Having such belief brings me to the conclusion that a God or equivalent can not exist. Which in turn brings me to the conclusion that neither heaven nor hell or equivalent exists.

To sum things up:
When a light burns out; nothing remains.

Answer 3

actually .this question bother me too .but if we believe in god sure there is another life and i think heaven and hell is just a symbols, but in real i think its even to live with god or not " to be an angle or not ."

Answer 4

In my case, lifes continues, in a different prospect.I think it depends of what you believe though, you create your condition. i dont believe in heaven and hell exactly, but i believe in cause and effect, if you do good things, you will receive good things, if you do bad things, you will receive bad things.

Answer 5

Nothing

Answer 6

i am a firm believer that good people will go to heaven and those you have killed or been abussive will go to hell.

Answer 7

i believe that there is a heaven and hell... everyone believes what they want... it only matters what u believe... no one can deside it for u...

Answer 8

i hope to see the souls i love that passed before me

Answer 9

we'll all sit around and chat over tea and crumpets.

Answer 10

Nothing will " happen ", as I will be dead. Accept your mortality.