(January 29, 2016 at 1:04 am)TrueChristian Wrote: As I am not an atheist, I do not know the answer to this question, so I am asking you.
Are atheists generally sad, unhappy people, as opposed to Christians (true and otherwise) and other believers?
I went through various periods of guilt when I was Christian. When I went through my two-year transition to disbelief, I had a lot of depression. When I stopped believing, I was able to dump all that. I am much happier now.
(January 29, 2016 at 1:04 am)TrueChristian Wrote: Idk, it just seems sort of discouraging to me to go around thinking that when you die, you just become like a lump of dirt, or a glob of poop, and thats it. No after life.. no paradise in the sky with your dead family members and pets.. just nothing.. so sad
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Luckily for me, I'll be dead when that happens, so I won't be capable of caring. Sure, there was a part of me that was disappointed when I realized I no longer believed I was immortal and destined to live in some extraplanar paradise, but it's not like wanting make-believe things makes them true. If I spent all my time comparing the good things in the really real world to some hyper-idealized version of things that might be, I'd probably be depressed as hell, but what's the point in that?
