2007-07-09 01:40:37 · 20 answers · asked by rydfsanta 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yea basically....except you don't wake up. of course, when you sleep at night you never know whether you're gonna wake up or not....the only scary thing about death is how you die, the best way is in our sleep and painless of course.
2007-07-09 01:43:27 · answer #1 · answered by Bouken SocratiCat 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course, it's OK to not believe in neither any "god" or any type of "heaven" you choose. Humanity with all its varieties in culture and faith are not one and the same for all, thank goodness.
After all, humans in all their forms have existed for many more years than have any type of organized religions - and all religions slowly change their systems of faith over time.
The most recent example I can think of, is the Catholic Church and how they need to "adjust" their concept of "purgatory and hell" to include infants who have died during childbirth and too soon to have had been baptized... and there have been millions of them over the years! Oh, my... what's a mother to do if she thinks her child has gone to some type of hell??
It's the same for Heaven. The images of "heaven", the concepts and characteristics of "heaven" will change just as they have with each culture. Our culture isn't perfect, nor is our concept of faith perfect, and I suppose in a decade or so, we'll think of angels communicating with cellphones or something...
2007-07-09 08:54:41 · answer #2 · answered by plenum222 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it should be okay to not believe. I don't, its not like I simply choose to not believe. I examined the evidence and found that I could no longer support the conclusion that religion was true. I couldn't force myself to believe in it anymore than I could force myself to believe there are little green men living on Mars without evidence and in spite of the fact we have lots of evidence there aren't.
No one knows for sure what happens when we die but there is no compelling evidence at this point for our consciousness surviving death. I think it will be like what it is to imagine before you were born. You don't recall being afraid or scared or anything. In any case, there is no use in obsessing over something we cannot change. We cannot prevent death, and so instead we should do the next best thing: work to make sure that life is not wasted, that both our lives and the lives of those around us are filled with happiness and purpose and free from suffering. I read this recently and I think it is beautiful and sums up my beliefs on after we die.
"The atoms that made up my body - iron, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, all the heavy elements forged in the crucibles of dying stars - will remain. Liberated from their temporary home, they will rejoin the rest of the planet, taking new shapes, finding new arrangements, becoming part of other life. I will become merged with everything.
I will become part of the trees that grow wherever my ashes are scattered, joining the ecosystem of the forest. I will be in the slow green heartwood of the trunks as they patiently tick off the centuries, in the buds that burst forth in spring and in the leaves that explode with color in autumn. I will be the sparkle of sunlight on the surface of a flowing mountain stream. I will sink into the earth and mix with the groundwater, eventually flowing back and rejoining the ocean where all life on this planet ultimately began. I will be in the waves that crash on the shore, in the warm sheltered tidal pools, in the coral reefs that bloom with life, and in the depths that echo with whale songs. I will be subducted into the planet's core and join the three-hundred-million-year cycle of the continental plates. I will rise into the sky and, in the fullness of time, become dispersed throughout the atmosphere, until every breath will contain part of me. And billions of years from now, when our sun swells and blasts the Earth's atmosphere away, I will be there, streaming into space to rejoin the stars that gave my atoms birth. And perhaps some day, billions of years yet beyond that, on some distant planet beneath bright alien skies, an atom that once was part of me will take part in a series of chemical reactions that may ultimately lead to new life - life that will in time leave the sea that gave it birth, crawl up onto the beach, and look up into the cosmos and wonder where it came from.
And the cycle will begin again."
2007-07-09 08:48:16 · answer #3 · answered by Zen Pirate 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's OK to believe what ever you want to, but it's not the same as finding out what is the truth on your own. I believe in Heaven personally and I know I will be going there immediately after I die.
2007-07-09 08:46:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
My friend.......I believe you feel the tug of the Lord in your heart. God gives us freedom to believe in Him, or to not believe. Believing in Him is the most wonderful and fulfilling life imaginable. Give Him a chance...read a Bible and talk to the Lord. When we die we Christians will be present with the Lord...our souls, and we will know peace and joy in His Presence. When Jesus returns to earth the folks who have died believing in Him....their bodies will come out of the graves and be reunited with their souls. Then we will have new bodies.......bodies that will never experience pain or sorrow again. The Bible is full of promises for those who love the Lord.
2007-07-09 08:49:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's OK to believe anything you want. It's more OK than that to believe things based on a logical examination of the evidence. So...on one hand, think of all the evidence you have for an afterlife, or god. On the other hand, think of all the evidence you have that there's no god or afterlife. Believe based on your best analysis of the situation.
2007-07-09 08:47:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
There are some people whom have died and came back to life. Do some research there are some that went up to a light and some that went down to the lake of fire. Then you decide.
2007-07-09 09:02:02 · answer #7 · answered by DALE M 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not okay not to believe in heaven or G-d. But I hope you will rethink the issue and become a believer.
I don't know how it will be like when we die. But I think that the Almighty will have some nice surprises for the good people.
2007-07-09 08:47:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
When you die, all evidence thus far points to us ceasing to exist. It would be similar to some stages of sleep, or more likely when you are knocked out.
Ofcourse, there could be a banana squirl goddess waiting for us at the end, but that is not at all likely.
2007-07-09 08:46:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
No. When you 'die' it will be like waking up! That will be the moment when you remember Who you are and what it is all about. God is within you not outside you. Look there.
2007-07-09 08:47:33 · answer #10 · answered by hedgewitch18 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋