Is it okay with you that there is no heaven? That we only get 80 some years and then its over? Do you wish that there WAS a real heaven so that we could be with our loved ones forever? I've just always wondered if non-believers wish there was something to believe in... I believe in God but I question myself all the time. I know I won't care either way when I'm dead but I'd like to think and hope that there is a Heaven... let me know your thoughts.
2007-12-10 13:24:28 · 57 answers · asked by *the dancing machine* 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My husband is an atheist so he would like to answer this:
Wishing doesn't make it so. You can look at churches of any faith or denomination and make the case that it's in their interest as a power structure and as a justification for one's suffering to offer pie in the sky as a comfort since little else is available in the present. No, I don't think I wish there was a heaven. I certainly wouldn't want it to mirror or be a better version of life as it is. I just can't picture what eternal bliss would look like. The idea of bliss seems to me to be related to our mortal frame and would be completely inadequate once that frame is cast off. The picture of heaven seems so limited. Of course it's comforting to think that things will be better one day and that's all I want to say.
Many blessings and he gives great answers so I hope you gain something from him and all of our other atheist friends as they are lovely people. Good night to you:)
2007-12-10 13:35:38 · answer #1 · answered by Yogini 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well, I'm not atheist, I'm agnostic. But, I think you have to live your life for the here and now. There is no use worrying about something you have no control over. Do the best you can while your here. And after you die either there will be an afterlife or there won't. I imagine if an atheist died and found there was an afterlife were they could be reunited with friends and family they would be pretty happy. But if there isn't we won't know the difference any way b/c we will not exist any longer.
2007-12-10 13:41:45 · answer #2 · answered by Tamsin 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I came to the conclusion that people believe in God because they need to have a reason and answer for every question out there. The answer is always "to love God" and "because it's God's will." ...maybe a few other answers in there as well...I think it's a person's way to comprehend the incomprehensible and profound. You believe in heaven because you want to know that there is something more than just this life (it's like knowing what you are getting on Christmas...it calms you down and makes you happy).
I don't think it's fair to say that people who don't believe in God have no belief or faith in anything, they have that belief and faith in themselves and they are okay without having an answer for everything. Heaven is what you make it and i'd say that right about now, this chocolate brownie is totally heaven! You want one? You can be in Heaven with me and you don't even have to die first!
2007-12-10 13:32:04 · answer #3 · answered by JaneDoe 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You can hope all you want. No one has disproved heaven (or something like it). I personally am fine with dying as long as I've had a full life. In the end, you the one who has to go through the experience.
2007-12-10 13:28:22 · answer #4 · answered by Tim K 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm perfectly fine with dying as it is a natural part of life. No, I don't wish for a heaven. So long as family and friends who have died are in ones thoughts, then they never truly are gone from you.
2007-12-10 13:28:53 · answer #5 · answered by genaddt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would love there to be an afterlife where everyone is happy. However, I am also OK with there not being one. A more important hope is that I don't die prematurely and will have made the most of the only life I can know that I have.
2007-12-10 13:34:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Forever and loved ones. How boring. I'm not even spending this night with them.
Forever like in infinite. unending. always everyday and night. all the time. no escape.
Besides I thought you soul was cleansed so to save you from the sadness of knowing your loved one didn't make it to heaven.
2007-12-10 13:31:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i might desire no one is implying something. loss of life is an somewhat mushy subject, no remember what you have faith. I have not have been given any thought precisely what i think, yet i'm nevertheless no longer frightened of loss of life. you won't be in a position to stress your self to have faith, are you able to? it is once you wind up on the therapist, or knocking on the priest's/minister's/pastor's door, finding for the solutions you already understand. Been there, completed that.
2016-11-14 09:30:07 · answer #8 · answered by barreda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man!, what a terrible, boring existence, not to believe in any thing, no greater power, just me. (Talk about depressing!) And to think of death and just laugh it off, like it's nothin'. You guy's ARE tough. I think I'll stay where I am, I'd rather live forever. I don't think I'd like to end up in a field with some cow peeing on me.
2007-12-10 13:49:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Having to gather around a throne with a few billion others doing nothing but worshiping an incomprehensible deity doesn't appeal to me at all. I hope and believe that dying will be the last thing that I'll do.
2007-12-10 13:42:50 · answer #10 · answered by Bokito 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋