Without belief in God and Divine Justice, death is an incalculable tragedy. It is the end of everything ?

Answer 1

Yes, without God, I believe death is it. I include God though, so this life is just a passing stage- heavan is what I look forward too.

Answer 2

WITHOUT BELIEF IN GOD ONE IS A LIVING CORPSE
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This you can see and realize from the difference in the words and deeds of a believer and a non-believer. (I do not handle stray exceptions here). Irrespective of religion, true believers (not fanatics) have much sober speech and acts and better happy lives than their non believing counterparts.

IS DEATH THE END
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We have not come here on our own choice, the surroundings of our birth was not our choice. The pains and sufferings, and at least some of the mistakes that we commit are not in our hand!

If there is a cause behind all these, and if we call that cause as God, there has to be something beyond this.

Also remember, if DNA lives on, resurrection can be thought of as possibility.

But there is no harm in living this life sober and fruitful, even if we cannot prove all these.

Answer 3

Death is the end of an individual's consciousness. That is far from being everything. An even greater tragedy than final death would be for people to have to live forever in one of two undesirable places invented by morons. Mark Twain, Isaac Asimov and I did/do not like the boring and depressing Heaven of the Bible. The Moslem one is much better, but all of them are fantasies.

Answer 4

So true...what some might not understand...belief or disbelief does not automatically cancel out existance. And second, without Divine Justice, God can not be pure in His goodness, for then He would be tolerating evil.

After Divine Justice, comes judgement. And that's where the tragedy is...for judgement does not have a penal scale (x years for x sin, y years for y sin)....it is eternal.

Tragedy.

Answer 5

Why would death be an incalculable tragedy? I was unaware that death ended the universe -- oh wait, it isn't so death can't be the end of everything, just the end of that individual.

Only your religion teaches you that death is an incalculable tragedy.

Answer 6

Energy never goes away, it just changes form. And we are made with energy - how else would we be alive? With that said, it makes sense that the energy that makes us alive lives on after our bodies decay. Only in death of the body will we know for sure what happens to our energy. Perhaps we make our own afterlife, perhaps there is a heaven and hell, perhaps there is something else that no one knows about. Death is only the end of the physical body, not our energy. I personally believe that when my body is done on this earth that my energy will travel among the stars and I will get the answers to all the questions that could not be answered during my time on earth.

Answer 7

I'm not crazy about the idea of death. I'd like to avoid it at all costs.

But just believing in something without any proof doesn't seem like a good idea to me. If it was then I would believe in rebirthing or going to heaven to become a god myself or the Viking idea of paradise. But there is no proof for that and no proof, as near as I can see for the biblical idea of life after death.

Answer 8

Very well said. If there is no God, then there is no justice for the tyrants that get rich and live large on the backs of others. Meanwhile, the meek receive nothing but hardship in this life.

Answer 9

The human race goes on, as does everything else in the Universe. It is the ultimate in arrogance for religious people to believe that they are 'special' and warrant more life than those who are not part of their fantasies.

We get one life, like all living creatures. If that is not enough for you, I pity you. Try living it instead of daydreaming about what happens at death.

To paraphrase Carl Sagan

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Answer 10

Death is the end of your life whether you believe in God or not. In my opinion, accepting it makes it a little less of a tragedy.

Answer 11

Everyone's heard this before, because it happens to so many people...but I nearly died and YES...my spirit DID separate from my body...I had no feeling in my body, and I was able to look down at it...and still think, see and hear, WITHOUT that body. It sounds very very strange, but when it happens, it is natural. My advice to people is truly, to get their hearts right with Jesus. Death is NOT the end.