(December 12, 2010 at 12:00 am)Darwinian Wrote: No, atheism has nothing to say about an afterlife, a beforelife or any other form of existence. All atheism states is a lack of belief in a god or gods. True that many atheists also happen to believe that there is no survival of consciousness after the death of the body but this has nothing to do with atheism itself.
It's quite possible to be an atheist and believe in some sort of 'afterlife', the two are not mutually exclusive.
Yes, my mistake. The few atheists I have spoken to did not believe in an afterlife. Though they are not mutually exclusive, it seems to me to be illogical to not believe in one unseen/unexperienced thing {God(s)} and then to believe in another (afterlife).
