What do athiests Believe in?

Question

Where do they believe they go after death if they dont believe in god?

Answer 1

Suppose you're at the beach and you make a nice big fancy sandcastle, complete with moat and turrets and so on. Later, the tide comes in and washes it all away - the sand gets spread around the beach and all trace of your sandcastle disappears.

Where did it go? Well, clearly the castle didn't 'go' anywhere as such - it was a temporary arrangement of grains of sand that went to make up something recognisable to us, and when the sea washed it away, it simply ceased to exist. Another day, someone else might come along and make another castle using some of the same sand that went into your castle, but the one you made is gone and can never exist again.

This is how it is with human beings - we are recognisable to ourselves and others as living organisms, but fundamentally we are temporary constructions of atoms and molecules and will one day simply cease to exist. Just as the sandcastle consists solely of the sand from which it is made, so human beings consist solely of the atoms and molecules of which we are made. When we die, our bodies will be returned to the environment to be incorporated into new living organisms, or to fall as rain, or to make the bedrock of a million years from now. We are ephemeral creatures, a brief pattern of order and complexity imposed on the raw material of the natural world. We should make the most of it, for this is all there is.

Answer 2

Atheists only need to not believe in god/s to be atheists. Beyond that, atheists may believe or not believe in many other things.

I am an atheist. I do not believe in any god/s. I think I will either go into the ground in a box, or get burned up into ashes after I die.

Answer 3

Since there is no Big Book of Atheism to consult from , every atheist has a different view of what happpens next. I think that nothing happens next. I've already been dead once and I didn't see any life out there.
I would like an Orthodox Jewish style funeral so that I can return to the earth from whence I came.

Answer 4

We just cease to exist after death. What do I believe in? A lot of things actually but it's too numerous to post here. I'll just say I don't believe in God.

Answer 5

Where does your conscious mind "go" when you are in deep sleep? If you're asleep and not dreaming, you conscious mind is effectively stopped.

Death is like deep sleep only more so. When our brains die, our entire sense of existence comes to an end.

We may wish that we live after death, but no amount of wishing will change reality.

Answer 6

It depends on the individual... personally, i believe that nothing happens after death... the consciousness simply ceases to exist , your body becomes inanimate, and rots away to be recycled into the earth.

Answer 7

The only thing we all believe in is that there isn't a god. After that you need to talk to the individual.

And there is no evidence you "go" anywhere. Remember before you were born? It is JUST like that.

Answer 8

Nature and evidenced fact. Death is the final destination it is not a route to somewhere else or another life, it is the end for each of us mortals.

Answer 9

We believe (not "in", generally) lots of things. The only thing we share is a common DISbelief (in gods).

After death we don't "go" anywhere. We cease to exist in every sense. We'll go back to how we were before we were born. Our bodies will decompose and disperse back into the Earth. And that's about it.

Answer 10

The feel this is it. They believe in themselves. They do not believe in an after.