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What do you think is going to happen when you die?

Do you think life is some random coincidence, and has no meaning?

Are you open to the possibility that there is a God who loves as his son and wants the best for you, but you are afraid to believe in him or just "Don't see enough evidence"?

Sorry, you don't have to answer all 3 of those questions, but i am curious to see your response on any of them or all of them.

2007-07-08 16:29:06 · 30 answers · asked by Bubby 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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I am not an Atheist, but I am also not a Christian, so I hope it is ok to answer.
Reincarnation.
I believe in Evolution and scientific facts, not coincidence. I believe the meaning in life is to help others. I think it is kind of a dig to Atheists to assume they think life has no meaning.
I study all the world's religions and respect others beliefs. But I don't see me ever believing in the same vision of God that you have.
Now if I might ask you two questions, with all due respect.
1. Why do Christians feel the need to convert others to their way of thinking. If someone believes in another religion could it not be possible that there religion is right?
2. Do you not believe that the Buddha is the enlightened one and that by following the eightfold path you can attain enlightenment or are you just afraid to believe in him because you don't "see enough evidence?" This is really not an attempt to convert you by the way. If you have found a way that works for you I am happy for you. I just really hope you will see that it is exactly like the question you are asking.

2007-07-08 16:43:02 · answer #1 · answered by Pangloss (Ancora Imparo) AFA 7 · 2 0

Remember how it felt before you were born, when billions of years of history passed you by? Of course you don't, because you can't have feelings before you're born. Well, that's what i think death is like too.

I believe that life began on this planet through coincidence, and I don't think it really has a meaning. I believe that we are lucky to have a conscience and are able to enjoy life, so we should make the most of it.

I am open to the possibility that there may be a higher life form, and I would change my religious beliefs if I were given proof. However, I am absolutely certain that the Christian god does not exist, and I don't really know enough about other religions to rule them out. There are just too many mistakes in the Bible for it to have come from a superior being, and some of the ideas in the Bible seem to have come from a rather primitive human mind.

2007-07-08 16:40:23 · answer #2 · answered by Sam 5 · 3 0

"For Atheists?
What do you think is going to happen when you die?"
Nothing. End of existence for me.

"Do you think life is some random coincidence..."
Yes
,"... and has no meaning?"
No. I can have meaning and fulfillment even if I don't believe in religion.

"Are you open to the possibility that there is a God who loves as his son and wants the best for you,..."
By all means, if it is proven to me without blind faith.
"..but you are afraid to believe in him or just "Don't see enough evidence"?
Not afraid, why would I be? It would be great if there really was an afterlife in heaven. It's that lack of evidence that does it.

"Sorry, you don't have to answer all 3 of those questions, but i am curious to see your response on any of them or all of them."
No problem. Cheers!

2007-07-08 16:37:11 · answer #3 · answered by blooz 4 · 3 0

1. I think it'll be all over for me when I die. No more consciousness, body slowly decaying, returned to the Earth from whence it came.

2. That "random coincidence" thing is just something that religious people say. I've never heard an atheist say that life is random or coincidental.

3. Same with that "afraid to believe in him" nonsense. It's not that I "don't see enough evidence": it's that there isn't any evidence at all for the existence of a god. You don't see any evidence either - if you did, you'd have mentioned it.
I'm not at all afraid to believe in gods - were there evidence for the existence of gods, naturally I'd believe in them.

The way that you worded that last one really makes it sound as though you're afraid to confront the fact that there isn't any evidence for the existence of any gods. Have you ever wondered what it is that frightens you so?

2007-07-08 16:36:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

Lights go out.

It's much more likely than the existence of an Invisible Sky Critter.

I am not afraid to believe in anything that presents some evidence. Are you talking about the same Invisible Sky Critter that allows all those poor little children to starve in Africa? Are you talking about that Invisible Sky Critter that allows abuse of children all over the planet? Are you talking about THAT Invisible Sky Critter or do you have another Invisible Sky Critter in mind?

Belief in the Invisible Man has no evidence to support it cos the concept was manufactured by scammers who finished up presenting to the world The Greatest Sting in all of history just so's some parasites didn't have to get a real job and just so's frightened children could trade-in their security blanket on a the security of a new delusion.

2007-07-08 17:18:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

1. Nothing
2.Theres meaning but i dont believe some guy just decided to create us. and yeah why cant something be a coincidence? why did some great superior power have to make it?
3. The day i see him or he talks to me i will be a believer and start reading the bible. i see more evidence to disprove him, sorry. its the most random propaganda ive ever heard in my life, come on if theres god hes probably laughing at our stupidity.

2007-07-08 16:45:09 · answer #6 · answered by ♥♥live&laugh 4 · 1 0

1) I will move on. No-one KNOWS where, but having been there twice and been personally sent back by whoever was there, I know that SOMETHING is there.

2)No. Life is deliberate and eternal. More I won't say here. It's too complex for this forum.

3)No, not at all. That's just cunning marketing elaborately constructed by the self-seeking priesthoods of the Hebrews, and then the Christians, (whom Jesus the man, if there was one, never knew) before the invention of consumer protection legislation.
OK, that's a hellova long sentence, but stay with it, it makes sense if you can hold it all in the mind at the same time.

2007-07-08 16:45:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

I will be dead. Gone. No more.

Life is primarily coincidence, yes. It is humans that try to impose order and logic upon life, with varying degrees of success.

I am marginally open to the idea that there may be a higher consciousness of some sort somewhere. BUT I will never and would never accept the barbaric Judeo-Christian god as that being. Far too bloodthirsty and petty to be of higher intelligence; it remains merely a reflection of the primitive minds who invented it.

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2007-07-08 16:45:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Well... you believe that a cosmic Jewish zombie, who is his own father, can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced to eat from a magical tree by an infinitely sadistic being, disguised as a talking snake with legs...

I just happen to think that that whole idea is pretty damn stupid, and the 'evidence' for it is... well... nonexistent.

I think that it is a danged shame that such a huge number of people base their world-view on the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of an ignorant gaggle of Bronze Age fishermenn and wandering goat-herders... brutal, murdering goat-herders, at that.

"Afraid to believe in him?" Don't be so bloody ridiculous. Not stupid and gullible enough to believe in him.

2007-07-08 16:40:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

I believe the entire universe is a random incident. I would be willing to believe if the were ANY evidence at all. I used to be a Christian, until I finally realized that all the praying and worshipping was useless.Nothing will get better unless your willing to do something to make it better, praying is a waste of time and energy.Also, when I die I'll be dead. That's it.

2007-07-08 16:39:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

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