Atheists, Just some insight for me please?

Question

Since you don't believe in Hell or eternal punishment when we die, I have a question as to how you would cope in a certain situation.
What if someone murdered a loved one of yours and was never brought to justice by law. The person was never caught and the murder remained unsolved forever.
I guess my question would be, How would you learn to deal with the fact that someone got away with murder and will never reap any form of punishment?

This may be a dumb question and I appologize in advance. Lol!
Thanks for your answers in advance too!

No, Heidavy, revenge would be killing the murderer yourself. It's called justice. Is putting a convicted killer in jail revenge?

Answer 1

I think anyone who lost a loved one in this situation, Christian, Muslim, Atheist, whatever, would be at least somewhat upset that they would never know who committed the crime and what the circumstances were. As an Atheist... I guess I would just hope that the murderer feels some sense of guilt and inner turmoil over the situation and/or gets caught at some point for that crime or another. I'd move on the best I could with my life. Oh yes, and I'd also probably do some investigating myself, but that has nothing to do with my religion or lack thereof.

Answer 2

Great question.

I have a friend who was beaten to death outside of his car by Gang members in an initiation, they have not been caught, and likely never will be.

I have a hope that they will one day be caught and have their freedom taken away, but if that doesn't happen, there is no need for me to dwell on it.

Its a terrible thing, but the reality of life dictates that bad people get along and prosper just as often as good people. I don't need a God to exact revenge in the afterlife for acts done here on earth. That type of revenge mentality is not healthy for people, so I reject it.

In all honesty, if I thought that those immoral boys were going to have to pay for murdering my friend with eternal torture, I would question the morality of the God ensuring it and dictating justice.

My buddy was a good person, killed by bad people. That is the end of the sad story, and I will not feel better about it, if I knew that they would pay for their lack of morality by being tortured eternally by God. That is an incredibly cruel and immoral perspective on humanity.

Answer 3

I don't think anyone deserves to be punished eternally for any reason.

besides according to many sects of xianity the murderer in question just needs to repent and he gets into heaven anyways.

life isn't fair but at least I know it's not fair because there no master puppeteer pulling the strings. I would undoubtably be angry about it but it's hardly a valid reason to believe in your god

Also isn't new testament bible god against revenge?

it may not be revenge to see the killer in jail but it's justice.

Answer 4

First of all its not a dumb question. Everyone has their own beliefs. Even if you don't believe in God, there is Karma. My friend was gunned down in the Utah mall shooting, and the gun man died before any one could find out even why he did it. So we are left wondering why my beautiful friend who lived 29 years as a good person and just graduated collage to start her life had it to be cut short, by some guy that didn't even know her. There is no closer, and can never be. All that we can do is realize the reality of the situation. Even if I knew that the guy went to hell, it wouldn't give me closer.

Answer 5

Retribution doesn't return your loved one to life. Of course someone in that situation wants justice to be served. But if it isn't, does it really help to believe in the myth of eternal punishment? Besides, all a murderer has to do to get out of it is to ask for forgiveness, right? Then he gets to be right up there in Heaven alongside Mother Theresa. Is that justice?

Answer 6

I think you are looking at it backwards, people believe in hell to cope with certain situations.
Personally I would be too concerned with the fact that one of my loved ones were gone to worry about someone else. If the person who murdered them gets punished what difference does it make? Of course I think they deserve it, but that does bring my loved on back

Answer 7

looking your self experiencing existence after loss of existence it no longer intrinsically info that anybody faith is authentic. inspite of the undeniable fact that, If I decrease back as yet somebody else here in the international, or a cow or another animal, i might say, Oh wow, those Hundus have been authentic, I had extra perfect attempt and save on with their regulations this time. If i discovered myself sitting upon green cushions surrounded via virgins in a paradise backyard i might start up reading the Koran very heavily. If I have been greeted via St Peter jangling his keys and figuring out no count if to open the pearly gates, i might grow to be a Christian and ask if there replaced into any hazard of a final minute baptism etc etc. yet perhaps I wold no longer adventure any of those? perhaps all the religions are incorrect and that i might easily have discovered the unified concept of physics and unlocked the secret of black holes, trojan horse holes and time loops?

Answer 8

Believing that a person would suffer for all eternity would not bring my loved one back from the dead. Revenge and hatred really only hurt the person holding it. Death is difficult to accept no matter how it comes about.

Answer 9

Who's to say that the murder doesn't repent on his death bed and get into Heaven anyway? Ghandi (and billions of other non-believing people) is supposedly burning in Hell. Life is not fair, deal with it.

Answer 10

I'm not sure how I would deal with it. I guess that I'd just sit and hope the murderer would be found. The death of a loved one would be hard to deal with no matter what religion you were.