Athiests, Are you sure that nothing awaits you after death?

Question

I am alittle saddened by the fact that so many people can deny christ is such a blasphemus manner..I just wander how u really feel about it?.do you really believe that this is it?..after you die ther is nothing else, isnt that sort of a sad existance?..to have no faith..in anything?

Answer 1

I really believe that this is it, and I don't see this as a sad existence. In fact, I see it as glorious because it's the only existence I get.

I don't see why having "faith" is such a good thing.

If I'm wrong, then I'm wrong, but I really don't think a loving God would punish me for not believing in him, especially since I live my life as a moral individual.

Answer 2

Athiests(sic), Are you sure that nothing awaits you after death?

Yes...

I am alittle(sic) saddened by the fact that so many people can deny christ (sic) is such a blasphemus(sic) manner..I just wander(sic) how u really feel about it?

The way your question is worded you are asking how I feel about your sadness at the blasphemy you perceive.. I feel you have a right to feel the way you do, your feeling however has no bearing on what I think and feel as I do not believe as you do...


do you really believe that this is it?

Yes...

..after you die ther(sic) is nothing else, isnt(sic) that sort of a sad existance(sic)?..to have no faith..in anything?

I will answer the final 2 questions together, No....


(sic) indicate that it exactly reproduces an original

Answer 3

Theists, Are you sure that heaven awaits you after death?
I am a little saddened by the fact that so many people can deny rationality in such a reckless manner.. I just wonder how you do it?.. Do you really believe that, despite everything,you have it right?

After you die your legacy lives on. Living to leave a great legacy is not a sad existence. To have no faith in God does not equate to having no faith in man.

You are a blind person walking among the sighted.

Answer 4

A very good question.

Eleventy and Magley64...AM, the fact that Christians have something to look forward to after this life in no way means that they are not livng life to the fullest.

I pack as much living into each day of my life as I can. This does not necessarily mean activities, although they are part of it. I don't want to live a life of 'shoulda, woulda, coulda'. A good part of that includes not sweating the small stuff and to enjoy as much of what I have been blessed with--family, friends, faith, circumstances, the world around me--as possible. To appreciate these things. I also look for the lessons to be learned in the down times, mine and others. A sense of humor certainly doesn't hurt, either. I approach life exuberantly and expectantly.

My faith is both the frosting on the cake of my life, and the platter that supports it.

Hope I helped. God bless you. †

Answer 5

Blaphemy only exists if one believes. I find it hard to believe that many Christians believe God is an elderly man with white flowing beard on a golden throne, especially since he/she is never described in that manner in the bible. I find it hard to believe that Christians can talk about the horror of the Quran, without any recognition of the multitude of horror in the Bible. I find it hard to believe that Christians feel the need to judge others constantly and continuously, even though they are instructed NOT to judge in the book they supposedly hold most dear. I find it hard to believe that Christians can be so militant, so angry, so unkind, so hateful, so violent, when simply following the 10 commandments would really make it nearly impossible to do so. But they do. They do.

Don't know if you will even get to this point in my answer, but maybe if you do, you'll see my point. Christians ignore each inconvenient aspect of their religion...how can that be? They lack the FAITH to do what it says. They believe they know better than Jesus. They believe that their god of retribution is much handier than the god of mercy and forgiveness that Jesus ostensibly brought to earth.

I have faith that I know right from wrong. I have faith in myself to do the best I can to live a good, helpful life. I fail at times. I'm human. Not believing in an after life won't have any effect on my present life. It doesn't have much affect on Christian's either, I don't think. Not really.

Answer 6

You have to make a difference between wishes and reality. We atheists might wish to live forever as every human being probably does. But our perception of reality is that there is not a scrap of evidence that there is anything beyond the physical death. Should we therefore succumb to our wishes and believe in afterlife just because we wish so? If we did, we would give up our rational thinking completely. We could as well believe in fairies.

Answer 7

I was a Christian for most of my life and thought very similar thoughts as you just expressed, but the reality of the situation is quite different. It is not sad to live and then die, that's just life for all creatures. My current existence is filled with life, sometimes joyful and sometimes stressed but I still live it, and I do not miss "faith" in any way, shape, or form. In fact, I deeply regret the time I spent being a Christian, and am quite embarrassed about the creationist lies that I helped to spread.

Answer 8

I was.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 9

Positive.

Answer 10

So are you saying that something only has worth if it's existence is permanent? You never built a sand castle or built something out of snow? If so, why? After all, it is not permanent, isn't it a waste of time?

Atheists enjoy living for living sakes, the fact that our existence isn't permanent just means we have more value in our lives, the lives of others and our world. Why do you feel our lives must continue to exist after death to have any real meaning?