If not in HEAVEN nor HELL, what do you believe happens when you die? Do you believe in just fading away? Won't you be afraid to dying then? AND why is it so far stetched to be living the beauty of HEAVEN, or suffering in HELL for your sins?
2007-03-26 03:28:23 · 37 answers · asked by ? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In the ground...or an urn.
Edit: I find it weird that a god (if you believe in his or not) would make people burn in hell just for living their life the way they want it...you know free will and all...
2007-03-26 03:31:27 · answer #1 · answered by deathfromace 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Although I'm not an atheist, being an agnostic I feel i can answer this question...(although i maybe wrong)
My belief that there is nothing after death. You just fade away, your body breaks down into molecules and becomes part of nature.
It seems too far away to live in hell/heaven because nature itself operates on principles not in anyway based on emotion/beauty or comfort/pain etc.
Things like beauty are a very "human" way of looking at reality, and so it's easy to think that the idea of hell/heaven is just a mere convinience/tool for us to face the thought of death.
2007-03-26 04:42:03 · answer #2 · answered by orbitting_man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is final, so there is nothing remaining of one to go anywhere. I would be more afraid of the grim Heaven my sister mentions that is boring and would soon be vacant if what she and Dad say was true. They see just two types of hell. The tales about heaven and hell are so infantile that I cannot see any logical person accepting such stuff. You say Heaven is beautiful, but I don't see it that way. Sins were created by priests to instill fear and guilt, that they use against people to make money and gain power. Jesus said that thinking about adultery is as bad as doing it. Any normal person has sexual desires and fantasies, so it is outrageous to make anyone feel guilty about such natural things.
2007-03-26 03:36:42 · answer #3 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheists believe that when the brain is dead that the person is gone. Because all consciousness is a meta phenomena of the the brain's electro-biochemical connections.
Our mind's have evolved to fear death. This is our survival instinct at work. If we allowed ourselves to die whenever things got rough we'd not survive long enough to reproduce and those genetic traits would not get passed to the next generation.
Atheist see no proof of god or his existence in the natural world. Atheist believe that eventually science will unlock the remaining mysteries of existence. They also believe that many wars and much hared are due to fundamentalist religious fanaticism and actually do the world great harm.
I am not an atheist myself but I feel I understand their world view and arguments pretty well. But feel free to correct me if I have misrepresented your world view.
2007-03-26 03:37:41 · answer #4 · answered by aiguyaiguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You go, wherever you want to go. Since you are dead, it doesn't matter. Heaven or Hell or Whatever, it's for people who can't comprehend, that dead is dead. If you don't get cremated, you make a Funeral home owner and lots of bugs and worms happy, that's' for sure. There is nothing wrong, if you keep believing, that there is a real Mickey Mouse, a real God or a real Easter Bunny, as long as you don't push your faith onto other people.
2007-03-26 03:44:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheists generally believe that after you die, there is nothing, at least for you. As far as heaven or hell, we simply don't see the need to believe in some afterlife of eternal joy or eternal torment to keep people in line.
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2007-03-26 03:35:28 · answer #6 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not fading away so much as switching off a light switch. No, it doesn't frighten me in the slightest - sorry if death frightens you.
It is far fetched to believe there is a heaven or hell because both ideas are utterly, utterly stupid and preposterous. They are founded on no evidence, no logic and a lot of scared wishful thinking. This life is fine for me, and I'll be content to go when my time is up.
2007-03-26 03:32:11 · answer #7 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
All experience and medical evidence leads us to conclude that when the brain dies, we die. No spirit continues after that, and our bodies are buried, cremated, or rot where they were hidden.
When I stepped from the shadows of superstition into the light of reason, I was afraid of the thought of simply "ceasing to be"--for a while. After all those years of believing in an afterlife, it was a bit of a stumbling block. Then I got over it, realizing that death would be no more frightening than the non-existence I experienced (or, rather, didn't) before I was born.
2007-03-26 03:36:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why is it so far stretched to say that a part of you that does not exist (the soul) will go on to exist in a place that is not in the material world, so therefore must be in another universe. Or not exist at all, to live where you're Apperently happy, even if this could be impossible on many levels. Why does this sound far-stretched to you?
2007-03-26 03:36:20 · answer #9 · answered by Same T 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I plan on being buried "green" -- that is, placed in a completely biodegradable cardboard coffin, buried in the ground and allowed to become a worm feast and fertilizer for the vegetation growing over and around me.
There is no hell, there is no heaven, there's only the guilt that religious people attempt to foist upon us because we choose to think for ourselves and not be guided by fear of punishment after we die.
So there.
2007-03-26 03:34:18 · answer #10 · answered by Resident Heretic 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
to the earth. No I'm not afraid of dying, I live life to the fullest because I know that this is all I get. and I don't believe in heaven or hell because they have not been PROVEN to exist.
2007-03-26 03:31:19 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋