RE: Am I Going To Hell?
August 3, 2015 at 1:05 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2015 at 1:30 pm by Pyrrho.)
Someone could be an atheist and believe in an afterlife. It could be reincarnation, or it could be just like the Christian heaven and/or hell, or like the ancient Greek religion on it, etc.
Atheism is about one thing. It is about whether there is a god or not. It is not about whether there is an afterlife or not.
Now, I personally think the idea of an afterlife is moronic, but that's me. Not all atheists agree on this.
Also, this is not due to "lack of evidence." The evidence suggests that your thinking and feeling are brain processes (this, by the way, is why your thinking is altered when various chemicals, like alcohol, are introduced into the brain), and so when the brain is stopped, your thinking and feeling stops. The end. That is what is most reasonable to believe, and it isn't just the fact that there is no good evidence that there is an afterlife. We have evidence that there is not an afterlife. Stupid and ignorant people may be unaware of the evidence, but it is there for anyone who wishes to look at it. At least, for anyone who has internet access.
That some people reject evidence and believe fairy tale nonsense is irrelevant to the fact that the evidence is easy to find.
Atheism is about one thing. It is about whether there is a god or not. It is not about whether there is an afterlife or not.
Now, I personally think the idea of an afterlife is moronic, but that's me. Not all atheists agree on this.
Also, this is not due to "lack of evidence." The evidence suggests that your thinking and feeling are brain processes (this, by the way, is why your thinking is altered when various chemicals, like alcohol, are introduced into the brain), and so when the brain is stopped, your thinking and feeling stops. The end. That is what is most reasonable to believe, and it isn't just the fact that there is no good evidence that there is an afterlife. We have evidence that there is not an afterlife. Stupid and ignorant people may be unaware of the evidence, but it is there for anyone who wishes to look at it. At least, for anyone who has internet access.
That some people reject evidence and believe fairy tale nonsense is irrelevant to the fact that the evidence is easy to find.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
