I wish to know this because first of all I am a christian (Roman Catholic to be exact) and I do believe that there is a Heaven, and that you go there when you die that is if you lived a good life, and believed in both God and that Jesus was the son of God. Also I do believe in a Hell and Satan and that it is where people go if they lived a very terrible and horrible life.
So I'm just curious to know of where we'd go after we died if there is no heaven, and no God.
2007-05-25 03:40:10 · 36 answers · asked by xsweet_surrenderx09 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nowhere.
When you die, you're just dead. We get buried or cremated usually. Heaven and Hell are just superstitions. God doesn't exist.
2007-05-25 03:42:02 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
I know exactly where I'll be going. Arrangements have already been made at a veteran's cemetery . My ashes will be burried there.
For many years I was a Catholic also. So many of the teachings of that and other religions ( yep, I study all of them )just don't add up with me.
I very truly believe that we, like all other living things here on earth will eventually die and become part of the earth from which we came. We are no different from all the other living things here on this planet.
What happens to the animals, birds, fish, bugs, trees, weeds, etc. will also happen to us. We will return to nature.
I can't believe the religion idea because there is not even the tinyest shread of evidence that anything similar to a "soul" exists, or is even possible.
2007-05-25 04:59:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think anything happens. It's just over. No further thoughts or awareness. Just as before you are born.
I think heaven and hell fill the human desire for revenge. And, for the comfort. I notice some religious people (just a small percentage) seem determined to control other people's actions. As if they fear that the other person will do terrible things without god. Most atheists and agnostics have values. Human society requires morals to exist. But, that does not prove there is a god.
And, I think from my experience watching someone grieve the loss of a close relative. The concept of heaven makes them feel comfort for one day they will see the loved one again.
But, I myself have no need for a physical existence or an awareness after death. I mean gee what would I do with an eternity of time. I don't see what I need it for.
2007-05-25 03:51:00 · answer #3 · answered by 354gr 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a.) Would you believe in heaven if you weren't taught about such things? Probably not. You believe in it because you were indoctrinated in the Catholic belief system.
b.) Why do you suppose the Catholic belief system teaches that if you believe in it you'll be rewarded with eternal salvation but if you go against what it preaches then you will suffer for all eternity? It's sort of self-preserving in that respect, isn't it?
Those are the two issues regarding religion that have never rung true for me.
To answer your question, what happens to us when we die? The same thing that happens to every other creature that once lived--consciousness fades, our body ceases to function and our bodies become empty shells.
2007-05-25 03:52:25 · answer #4 · answered by Peter D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your body goes into the ground. Ashes to ashes.
After that, there is no "you" to "go" anywhere.
After death your conciseness is exactly where it was before you were born - non-existent. That doesn't strike me as such a terrible thing.
Isn't the fear of death the main reason you're a Christian? Because you can't face the terrible truth that death is the end of your life as a self aware being? You believe in a fantasy after life because that's more comforting than facing the truth.
2007-05-25 03:48:05 · answer #5 · answered by Rob B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Philadelphia.
Seriously... 4 billion people on earth would not go to "heaven" under your exclusive belief system. and no one before 2000 years ago? Gandhi, Einstein, The Dalai Lama, Aristotle, William Shatner to name a few... would be unwelcome.
2007-05-25 03:48:53 · answer #6 · answered by shazam 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So according to your beliefs, do i go to Hell for living a good life but not believing in God?
2007-05-25 03:42:39 · answer #7 · answered by Jon C 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I don't know -- and I KNOW I don't know, and don't have the audacity to claim otherwise.
It's entirely possible your church might be right, and that there'll be a day of reckoning. And if it is, I'll stand before your god without fear or shame and say to him, "You knew my mind, and you gave me my intellect; you knew I wouldn't simply take the word of lying, fallible humans -- and frankly, I can't believe you'd WANT to be surrounded by blind, obsequious sheep any more than I'd want my own son to be that way around me. You wouldn't make time to explain yourself to me before; but now it seems we have nothing BUT time -- speak your peace..."
2007-05-25 03:42:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Had an old dog and his name was Rover.
When he died he died all over.
People are just like Rover. People are buried, cremated, lost at sea, or whatever. They are just like Rover. Dead. For eternity. Whatever that is.
2007-05-25 04:02:41 · answer #9 · answered by Grendel's Father 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will just be dead. You go no where, you no longer exhist. You turn into dirt, worms eat you and you rot. Doesn't God sound a lot nicer now? Believe.
2007-05-25 03:46:17 · answer #10 · answered by waffles 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nowhere but the ground. you just stop existing, you are not mad or sad about anything because you are nothing. It is a hard concept to grasp but I find it easier than that of Religion.
2007-05-25 03:45:41 · answer #11 · answered by jmason0316 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋