ATHEISTS: What are you going to right before you die? Go for the good ol' last second repentance?

Question

Not gonna work! You must repent now.
I wish I could be there at the moment of death for each and every atheist just so I could see if they repent before they die.
Darwin repented on his deathbed. You guys all want to be just like Darwin right? Then repent.

Answer 1

"Darwin repented on his deathbed."

Lie. Your honesty is right up their with your compassion.

Fortunately for you, you're wrong about the afterlife.
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Oh, and to answer your question, immediately before I die, I'm going to kill as many telemarketers as I possibly can.

Answer 2

Dear Greg T:

Thanks for adding "(Christian)" to your user name. It made it a lot easier for me to figure you out, so I didn't even have to consider all of your blathering about repenting and wanting to watch people die (which probably would have clued me in).

What exactly do I have to repent for? I'm not the one wishing I could be at people's deathbeds just to say "I told you so!" I guess your god is the vengeful one.

As for what I'll do before I die: it's hard to tell. Ideally, I'd like to say, "Well, that was fun while it lasted." But, depending on how I die, I might say something different (e.g. "Hmm...I should have looked before I stepped out in front of that bus."). I can tell you one thing: I won't be repenting because I don't believe in heaven or hell and I know my days here have always been numbered and, frankly, there's not a lot I can do to stop that. I don't suffer from any delusion of grandeur that I am somehow special and will spend eternity with a bunch of angels while other people will burn in hell. I stopped believing in those fairytales way before I even learned that Santa Claus was a huge hoax.

So, dearest Greg, what I'll do before I die is frankly none of your business. At least I'll know that I didn't spend my whole life foaming at the mouth like a damned fool. My question for you comes from an old comedy skit by Rowan Atkinson (see the link below): when you die, what are you going to do if the Jews were right?

Answer 3

Does it make you uneasy when someone can face death without fear and without relying on irrational beliefs for petty comfort. I've faced death numerous times and fear never entered my heart. If the only reason you have faith is fear of what happens after you die, then you are ignorant. We all die, we can't avoid it. Sissies such as yourself think that death is the greatest of evils that can be bestowed upon you. But I ask you, why is it evil? Why should I fear the cycle of life? Why should I believe that I'm inherently a bad person and need to be forgiven? Maybe your a pathetic wretch who needs to be told how to live a moral life, and without direction you wouldn't know the difference between right and wrong, but I on the other hand like to use my reasoning skills and think. Death is either one of two things. Either we die and there is nothing, or there is an afterlife. If there is nothing then it will be akin to an undisturbed sleep. The nights when I slept like are some of the best nights I can remember and if that is what death is, then I welcome such an eternity. The other option is an afterlife. If there really is a god, and he would throw me into a lake of fire because I wouldn't have a blind faith in something that makes no sense, yet still lived rightly, then that god can kiss my hairy as$. But I doubt any god could be so cruel. So while you spend your life trembling with fear of what will become of you when you die, I'll be remembering that I'm here today, enjoying my life.

Answer 4

Darwin? You were not there, were you? The titled English woman who claimed Darwin had repented was not there. But the man's daughter was. His daughter, not a stranger, not a neighbor woman with an agenda. She told the world that her father did not so much as mention religion, or his landmark research on the origin of species. It is an old Fundamentalist lie...let another, yet another. As for me, what shall I do right before I leave this little blue rock? My hope is based on my profession, the classical theatre, but I doubt that you would understand my description even of it. You can be sure the a nonexistent god of a Bronze Age tribe of murdering desert nomads will play no role, no role at all. Gods do not exist, gods never existed, gods shall never exist. It is all a rather silly myth like Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny. Silly and absurd at the onset of the 21st century.

Answer 5

Darwin didn't repent on his deathbed. You fell for that old forgery. His own children refuted that particular story.

You are so, so ignorant about the wonderful world outside the cramped little cottage of religious belief. I am quite capable of working out what's right and wrong without needing the more-than-two-thousand-year-old code of a barbaric religious text to tell me what to do. You think that everybody is religious - that because I am an atheist, I must want to be like Charles Darwin. That only goes to show how narrow your imagination is. Because I am an atheist, I can be like whoever I want to be like. Even myself, if I have the courage.

Answer 6

Darwin did not repent on his deathbed, that is just a fable some tell to make their pre-conceived notions that all atheists will recant their beliefs at deaths door.

I have never believed in the christian deity so why would that be what I wanted when I am at deaths door... I'd much rather have my loved ones there.

Answer 7

Well you're sort of right. It's true that if I repent at the last second it won't work. It's also true that if I repent now it won't work.

I guess the one good thing about this from a Christian perspective is that when you die and nothing happens, at least you won't have to listen to the atheists say, "I told you so."

Answer 8

CHRISTIAN: Why do you insist that morality only exists within religion?
When was the last time you heard of an Athiest going on a crusade and slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people, or an inquisition, or bombing an abortion clinic?
I feel no need to repent, and I won't feel it on my deathbed...unless I'm suffering from a lack of oxygen to my brain, and I start hallucinating about god and Santa Clause.

Answer 9

I can understand why, as a Christian, you want people to repent before they die, but it is just plain sadistic to WANT to see if they repent, so that you can laugh at them if they don't. You definitely need to re-examine your attitude. Be compassionate!

By the way, even Answers in Genesis, a conservative creationist group, acknowledges that Darwin did not recant on his deathbed. See this page: http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v18/i1/darwin_recant.asp

Answer 10

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