Afterlife

[Homeless Nutter]

What solace would you offer a grieving father whose son was killed by a drunk driver?   What promise of justice for the criminal the law could not prosecute?  We can explore what atheism has to offer.  What Ra and the ancient Egyptian text can offer.  There's always Christ.

Great questions.  I suppose I would console the father that he would see his son again.

I would say God holds all accounted for their actions with both justice and mercy. A lot would depend on the drunk driver whether he didn't think much about it and kept drinking, or if it devastated him and he suffered the rest of his life because of it.  Way too many variables.[...]

Oh, my - aren't you just brimful of yourself... Why don't you just tell the father to stop being a baby, since obviously there is no such thing as death in your opinion? You're not consoling the father - you're making yourself feel better, by diminishing the grieving person's loss - IN YOUR EYES. If the father is a christian - that's fine I suppose. But if you were talking to someone with different beliefs - you're just an uncaring, self-righteous asshole, trying to use someone else's tragedy to score some points with your imaginary friend. Kind of like a junkie saying "Don't worry about it - it's going to be fine. Here - have a toke on my crack-pipe". Only more despicable...