2007-12-15 09:13:23 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Athiest means one who rejects the belief in God or gods, not necessarily heaven or life after death.
2007-12-15 09:21:00 · update #1
It'd make a lot more sense to hope to not ever die in the first place.
2007-12-15 09:18:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thank you for telling me that,
So there are:
Agnostics: who believes nothing can be known concerning the existence of God.
Atheists: the belief that God doesn't exist.
Pantheists: who believes that God can be identified with the universe and that the universe is a manifestation of God. They accept worship of all gods.
Pagans: those not in the Christian army.
They are those holding religious beliefs other than main world religions.
But concerning your question about Atheists: I feel it would benefit them more if Christians were not so harsh in their judgment of them. If they are hoping for an afterlife hope they get it, sure God will give it to them for reasoning with Him and simply for the asking.
After all the only reason Christians have their eyes opened is that God has done it for them, so if they must boast then boast of what God has done, after all it is not of their own doing.
2007-12-15 20:37:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am an atheist and I think an "afterlife" is very likely. Not Heaven or Hell, but a conservation of consciousness on a different plane. A form of consciousness may survive in a way we can't measure (yet). Dr. Bruce Greyson's research in NDEs is interesting.
2007-12-15 17:30:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you live your life to the fullest now and enjoy what you have, then the idea of death is not to be feared.
Everything must come to an end.
I don't believe in nor do I hope for an afterlife.
2007-12-15 17:30:25 · answer #4 · answered by earthlover7 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE TRUE ANSWER OF THE AFTERLIFE
(from an atheists prospective)
As it is now, we have already been alive forever. This soul that you have, has been alive forever. It comes from an unending stream of life, going back to the Big Bang and beyond. This soul/spirit gives life to the next life, in dense and subtle energy. This soul has been alive forever already. When you die, you are reborn again.
2007-12-17 21:36:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist and I don't believe in any sort of afterlife, nor anything else supernatural. All that is just wishful thinking.
2007-12-15 17:25:00 · answer #6 · answered by NaturalBornKieler 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your addenda is correct. But I find it impossible to grasp the notion that someone would believe in an afterlife, but no god to manage it. I'm sure there are people who believe this, I just can't grasp it. (One of my many shortcomings -- I guess.)
2007-12-15 17:24:49 · answer #7 · answered by battleship potemkin AM 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, all the atheists I know do not believe there will be an afterlife. They believe this is it.
2007-12-15 17:28:35 · answer #8 · answered by tarro 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not me and I doubt there are many who do.
An afterlife is something people made up to help themselves deal with the idea of death. It's much more comforting to them to think that they are "going" to some "special" place than it is to realize that all living things eventually die and that's it.
2007-12-15 17:18:35 · answer #9 · answered by t_rex_is_mad 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
afterlife is only an immaginative thing made up by religion to make the hopes of poor people who have faith converge in the belief of a complex system of ideas and dogmas just to make them quiet.
i hope the concept is well-expressed, if not i ask pardon, i'm italian and my english is not perfect
2007-12-15 17:22:33 · answer #10 · answered by thankyou 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I want to believe that there's an afterlife, that when you die there is still more, but I know there's no afterlife, just like you know there is an afterlife
2007-12-15 17:29:06 · answer #11 · answered by Mindgames 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋