Atheist: Are you not sad that you have no belief of life after death?

Question

As in "sad" I mean.. Never seeing your loved ones again etc?

Answer 1

Actually, I'm relieved that there is no life after death. Living forever would be boring, so I think I'll pass on that. I'll finally get to sleep for once, and there's no way anybody will wake me up.

Answer 2

The Prophet says that at the sixth week of the Embryo's development, God sends an angel to write whether it will be righteous and prosperous or wicked and condemned. What does this mean, and how can we reconcile it with human free will?
In addition to what has been said above, we will make the few following comments.

Destiny is a title of Divine Knowledge. It does not cancel our free will or force us to behave in a preordained way. Since God knows beforehand what we will do and say (as He is not con-strained by our concept of time), He has an angel to write down our life-history. A human being behaves according to the dictates of his or her free will, not because God wrote down his/her future life.

Destiny is related both to the cause and effect. There are not two separate destinies, one for the cause, the other for the effect. God knows beforehand how His servant will behave in what circumstances and His pre-knowledge does not contradict a human being’s having free will.

Only God knows whether we will go to Paradise or Hell. Although unbelief deserves eternal punishment, we may not say that unbelievers are going to Hell, for one day they might accept belief and go to Paradise. Many atheists have become Muslims. Islam came to guide unbelievers to faith and worship, and to eternal happiness in Paradise.

Answer 3

Not in the slightest.
Once one accepts reality and can get over the initial adverse reaction to the truth, all becomes clear and, with time, the ability to cope with mortality becomes very easy.
To live this one and only life depending upon there being an afterlife does appear to be extreme folly.
Bear in mind that the promise of an eternal existence after death is totally false and was only introduced, way before christianity, as a comfort-factor for the simple-minded.
Are we, in 2007, as simple-minded as ancient man? I suggest not.

Answer 4

No. Maybe I'm a little disappointed that theists won't be conscious to experience profound disillusionment after they die. But the understanding that this life is IT makes me want to take it more seriously, figure out a way to make the best contribution I can toward the betterment of humanity. It's better than complacency or fatalism.

Answer 5

I have no god, so by definition I am Atheist.

However, I believe in a life after death.

So you might want to direct the question at people that don't believe in life after death, not the Atheists.

Answer 6

An atheist doesn't necessarily have to disbelieve life after death, but no, I don't have a problem with facing death. It's the process of dying that I am more concerned about.

Answer 7

The plural of "atheist" is "atheists." It's a regular plural and a very simple thing to write.

No, it doesn't bother me that there's no life after death. This life is enough.

Answer 8

No.
If there is no god and no afterlife,
most to be pitied are those who have believed, falsely, in such.
(So argued St. Paul in 1Cor 15. No Pascal's wager for him!)

No. It's down, then, to a question of truth. Life after death is there or it isn't.
A question of reality. And I wouldn't be happier trying to cling to a "happier" myth, while being sure it was a myth.

Answer 9

I'm not sad at all.

Eternity has no appeal to me.

Why would anyone in their right mind *WANT* to live forever? I honestly and truly cannot imagine how anyone would want that.

I can understand being afraid of dying, but I'd be vastly more terrified of living forever.

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Do my loved ones ever really die in my life if I carry their memory in my heart, and live by the lessons they've taught me?

Answer 10

How can you be sad about something you don't belive in? R u sad that there isn't a Santa Clause?