2007-09-12 06:46:56 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
By dealing with the pain and moving on. Accept it, feel it, understand it, release it.
2007-09-12 06:50:30 · answer #1 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 15⤊ 1⤋
This is a tough question. Having no faith in anything is a sad thing. Life would seem empty. I lost my dad when I was 17, and 3 grandparents who were VERY close to me. It took me 10 years to find the peace and hope I was looking for. You see I was also atheist when I was younger. It was only when I became a Christian that these wound healed. I am no comforted by God when I am sad or hurting. As silly as it may sound to you who has no faith... it's true.
I pray you find the peace and hope you are looking for.
God Bless.
2007-09-12 13:54:57 · answer #2 · answered by Milosmommy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How do the religious obtain peace for loved ones that don't believe as they do?
How do the religious sleep at night knowing that someone is going to burn forever or just be completely annihilated?
Come to your senses, either you believe there is a loving God that has brought salvation to all mankind, or believe there is no God.
This is what is meant by rest. Either all or saved, or none are.
Anything in between is just phariseeism, self righteousness, and fear tactics to keep the money rolling in.
People want to control you, they fear freedom.
2007-09-12 13:55:19 · answer #3 · answered by PJ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Death and birth will occur either way. Peace and hope are not effected. But of course, everyone is sad when a loved one dies.
2007-09-12 13:53:04 · answer #4 · answered by Le BigMac 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
nobody, atheist or theist, has an easy time dealing with the passing of someone you love. theres not much comfort to be had in the idea of an afterlife to an atheist, so i personally find solace in carrying on my own life in my dearly departed's legacy. living it morally as they would want me to have. beyond that, i cant do much more then to accept it and live on.
2007-09-12 14:13:15 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Gentleman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most atheists dont trip. They are often content and do not need a reassuring deity. Reassuring people can help. Empathy and such. But no real need for a God to say it's all good.
2007-09-12 13:56:36 · answer #6 · answered by Squirrel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peace is from within and I am one of those muslims that believe that the breath of Life comes from Allah. Even if one is an atheist by his thought and conviction he still has breath that he did give himself and life which he did not create. The breath is from Allah the Life is Allah from Allah. Yes this one is atheist but he has to still his thoughts catch the breath given to him by Allah though he denies and move on into acceptence that we all must die or return to the essence so to speak. Allah is peace and from Him comes peace for real Allah blesses whosoever He chooses. Atheist does not mean that he is free from gravity or that one will never change or grow into renewed consciousness. As long as we are alive we all have the chance to get it right or die trying.
2007-09-12 14:00:09 · answer #7 · answered by abuhusayn02 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We remember the good times shared with the deceased, and cherish the time we have with the loved ones still with us.
The same as you do, only without the dubious comfort that comes from lying to oneself....
2007-09-12 13:53:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You don't have to do anything. When someone you love dies, it hurts for a long time, no matter what your religion or lack of might be. In time, it'll get better. It'll always hurt sometimes, but it will hurt less as time passes.
2007-09-12 13:56:34 · answer #9 · answered by RabidBunyip 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easy - for most of the universes existence we haven't existed, and it didn't bother us then, why let it bother you overmuch after you've existed? I've never understood how theologians seem to devalue something just because it's impermanent- if things don't cease to be, new opportunities can't arise.
2007-09-12 13:54:26 · answer #10 · answered by miserable old git 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
fundies are the ones that need to pat themselves on the back and tell each other that everything will be alright...
atheists simply accept death as the natural conclusion of life...
2007-09-12 13:56:18 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋