7 Points of a Godless Life

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The OP gives us a good example of atheist wishful thinking. If there is no god you can do as you please to serve yourself without having to worry about trivialities like justice or truth. You live, you die, the end. How comforting it must feel not having to worry about the ultimate consequences of your life and never being held into account. I can see the appeal of atheism for people with no sense of responsibility beyond themselves.

The difference between atheists and theists, it seems, based on the fact that this argument is such a common theme among religious blowhards that can't leave well enough alone, is that atheists don't share in the theist's desire to commit actions that would require accountability of a negative sort after death. Isn't it interesting, Chad, that you seem to believe that your actions in this life will require some retributive justice in the next, whereas I do not? My actions in life don't require some grand, dramatic court martial to balance the books punitively before I go on to my rest, and frankly, it's a testament to how bad you have been not only that you think your actions do require that, but that you literally can't imagine a person who might just be decent their whole lives, make up for their errors in this life, and die without this clawing fear of ultimate justice round the corner. As usual, your projection says far more about you, than it does about that which you disdain.

Incidentally, who, exactly, is attempting to escape accountability here? The atheist, who does their best to make up for their bad actions in the here and now, or the christian, who has shopped off any need to do that on the suffering of a third party they've agreed to be innocent? You want to talk about escaping accountability? You think you're going to heaven regardless of your sins because of a Christ shaped loophole, something that we atheists have no assurance of at all, and you're accusing the people who aren't using the loophole of trying to avoid accountability?