RE: How do you deal with life now that you are an atheist? (With a little of my life)
August 25, 2016 at 3:34 pm
Death is not so much an unknown place as a null place. We think of death as not being alive after having been alive. But we were all not alive before we were born. Horrible wasn't it? Don't remember? Me neither. Don't get me wrong, I like being alive, but the idea of not being isn't really frightening, though the transition is. Not is not, is not.
Most religions try to turn not into good place, bad place. That's fraught with uncertainty. Did I choose the right god? Did I do the right things? The idea inspires terror in some. Depictions of hell are. . . hellatious. Not is just not.
As for god guiding or helping you during life, at least you don't have to ask if your pain is because god is against you. The responsibility for bad decisions is your own. Admit you aren't in control of everything. People born to poverty in the third world, or born with dehabilitating health problems are unlucky not bad. Luck is not a virtue.
Most religions try to turn not into good place, bad place. That's fraught with uncertainty. Did I choose the right god? Did I do the right things? The idea inspires terror in some. Depictions of hell are. . . hellatious. Not is just not.
As for god guiding or helping you during life, at least you don't have to ask if your pain is because god is against you. The responsibility for bad decisions is your own. Admit you aren't in control of everything. People born to poverty in the third world, or born with dehabilitating health problems are unlucky not bad. Luck is not a virtue.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
