Dear Atheists: What do you think will happen to your souls after death?

Question

With all due respect.. Just a question I was pondering...

Do you think you will simply be non-existent.. Have no sense and your soul and body will not move onto other realms?

I know Atheists, essentially don't believe in life after death... But is your reasoning of the soul and body just ending... scientifically poven and such.. since Atheists focus on logic?

*P.S.. Not saying your right or wrong.. just want to see what logic brings you to this conclusion and if there are any of you who DO think your soul will live after your 'bodies' demise....

Thanks

Peace&Love

Oh and does your reasoning simply come from the oposite of religion.. since religion says your souls do move on... Did you base your logic on the oposite of religion... or for some other reason?

Ok. Lets say there is no such thing as a soul... Do you not think you will move on in some sense.. or just complete emptiness?

What I want to know is if there is some research done in this feild.. that's all.

LOLO.. I understand what your saying dear. No actually, according to my faith.. your soul is the thing that gets punished and rewarded. We don't believe we can get away with anything.

Answer 1

I'm honestly not atheist, but more along the lines of agnostic... so i don't believe in a soul. I am a living thing, just like any other living thing on this planet... I don't, or try not to hold myself to any higher stature than i myself deserve... so i am only different in appearance to those things around me.

I believe that when i do die, and of course, we all will, the only thing that happens at the simple fact that my body has deceased... i dont believe in an afterlife, soul, or n e other religious background, no offense to n e one that does... My body will deteriorate into the earth, and all that will remain of me in many years time is a memory of my life, if n e one alive chooses to remember my life. I'd like to think that there was an afterlife, but i just don't think that is possible... Just my opinion all... please don't get offended...

Answer 2

Soul is based on belief not on scientific evidence. We are alive and aware of our surroundings because the neurons in our brains are working. When the brain stops functioning we cease to exist. We no longer feel, think or see what is around us. Our life ends. Pretty simple, there is no such thing as soul. It is just a religious concept.

Answer 3

The concept of the immortal human spirit (the soul) was invented about 390 AD by St. Augustine of Hippo. Augustine combined Plato's Idealism with Aristotle's Solipsism and further postulated that God loans each new human a tiny bit of His own immortal essence at the time of the human's birth. The experience of living was believed to grow God's gift into a human soul, which returned to God in Heaven when the human died. The triune philosophies of Idealism, Solipsism, and Soul completely dominated Western civilization until the seventeenth century. Jesus Christ, all His disiciples, the founders of the early Christian church, Mohammad (the prophet), and the founders of Islam were all undoubtedly Idealistic Solipsists. Mohammad undoubtedly also accepted St. Augustine's hypothetical Soul.

Beginning about 1590, the physics experiments of Galileo Galilei, followed by those of Isaac Newton proved beyond all possible doubt that the objective (physical) realm is absolutely real. This directly contridicted Aristotle's Solipsism and caused free-thinking people to begin to doubt that subjective experience was actually real. The Catholic church responded with a war on the heresy of Materialism, examining countless thousands under torture and then burning them at the stake. The last known Catholic execution for Materialism occured in Mexico, in 1850, and was a medical doctor who stubbornly insisted that conscious awareness arose from a living human brain.

The electronic vacuum tube was invented at the beginning of the twentieth century and quickly led to the invention of the electroencephalograph (EEG). This device proved beyond doubt that all thoughts, emotions, memories, and perceptions arise from the neurological structures of a living human brain. Plato's Idealism was utterly discredited because it was proved that thinking did not require telepathic communication with the gods. Aristotle's Solipsism was destroyed because subjective experience was proved to be a mental illusion, generated by a living brain based on limited sensory data about objective physical reality. With the unsubsantiated speculations of Plato and Aristotle utterly discredited by easily verifiable scientific experiments, St Augustine's hypothetical Soul is obviously completely impossible. The human mind is entirely self-contained within a living brain and imaginary souls simply do not exist.

Conscious awareness is an emergent property arising from the complexity of a living human brain and even appears, to a limited degree, in the brains of all the great apes. When death occurs, blood circulation halts and the metabolic processes which produce the ATP that powers our muscles and thoughts also stop. Conscious awareness simply ceases forever.

Please note that I have provided the above information for education's sake only. You are perfectly entitled to your own beliefs, as am I.

Answer 4

Since I don't have a soul, it is hard for me to say anything will happen to it after death.


But, yes, your brain just shuts down. Have you ever been put under general anesthesia? It is the same phenomenon, except you don't wake up.



And the reasoning doesn't come from the 'Opposite of Religion', it comes from the fact that no one can prove the concept of soul & afterlife exist.

Answer 5

The concept of a soul is just a mental construct arising from the coherence of persistent memory dependent on neurological activity. Once the brain chemistry shuts down, the mental construct no longer exists.

Answer 6

Thank you for the peace and love! I'm not very accustomed to receiving it from christians.

I don't believe in the "soul" so since it doesn't exist, it can't "go" anywhere. There is no proof of a soul.

I wish you well.

Answer 7

Dear Santa Claus,

I have been good Atheist all year long, and next Christmas I would would like a goat to sacrifice and a soul to trade to the devil for eternal life!

Yours sincerly,
Jerry Falwell.

Answer 8

Without a definition of that soul you are referring to I can not answer the question. As for the being dead part: equal to before being born.

Answer 9

I am a bit confused, so if u dont believe in souls it doesnt matter how bad you are right? You can do all the crap you want to as long as its done in secret? There is no point in doing good and avoiding evil unless in public since you wont be rewarded or punished. So as long as society accepts it correct for you to do it? I am not trying to make you people mad, just wondering because I find it hrad to understand...

Answer 10

It all goes back to the first second in time. You cannot have something from nothing. Logic/science cannot explain the things of God. How do atheists explain "Emotions" we all have them, however, we cannot touch them or see them, we only see the manifestations of them. What about our "minds"
can we see thought or memory? How do we know it exists?
We know because we see the manifestations of these things, not the things themselves. Our souls are the same thing, we cannot see them, but we see the manifestation of them in peoples lives. God Bless All.