Well it should not nagg you. That is just leftover bullshit after a lifetime of being told you need a cosmic dictator.
But to be fair, the idea of reward punishment in an afterlife is not unique to the religions of Islam, Christianity, or Jews.
Even Buddhists and Hindus believe in the superstition of reincarnation, in that if you do good in this life, you will be better in the next, and if you do bad, you will be at lesser status in the next. "Karma" is also another bullshit superstition. The idea that what comes around goes around simply is false. Sometimes bad people DO get away with it and never get punished.
Even the Ancient Egyptians had their ideas of judgment in the afterlife. Even in ancient Japanese religions they have concepts of reward and punishment in the underworld if you do bad.
Religious ideas of punishment and reward really simply stem from the ignorance of antiquity. They really are nothing more than a child like construct reflecting our first regulation after birth, our parents. If we please our parents and obey them we do better, if we don't they punish us.
Mythological concepts of good vs evil, are really no different than fiction like Yoda vs Darth Vader. How afraid are you of being seduced to the "dark side"? GREAT, now apply that to your former religion.
Trust me, you don't have to fear a fictional afterlife anymore than you had a cognition prior to your birth. You can still be good and do good without fear. You will still have ups and downs to some degree, and of course that isn't advocating a free for all so you can rape or murder. It merely means you don't need Santa threatening coal in your stocking.
The threat/bribe motif of religion is vile to me. Real morality to me is doing the right thing even when nobody is watching, even when you don't get rewarded for it.
But to be fair, the idea of reward punishment in an afterlife is not unique to the religions of Islam, Christianity, or Jews.
Even Buddhists and Hindus believe in the superstition of reincarnation, in that if you do good in this life, you will be better in the next, and if you do bad, you will be at lesser status in the next. "Karma" is also another bullshit superstition. The idea that what comes around goes around simply is false. Sometimes bad people DO get away with it and never get punished.
Even the Ancient Egyptians had their ideas of judgment in the afterlife. Even in ancient Japanese religions they have concepts of reward and punishment in the underworld if you do bad.
Religious ideas of punishment and reward really simply stem from the ignorance of antiquity. They really are nothing more than a child like construct reflecting our first regulation after birth, our parents. If we please our parents and obey them we do better, if we don't they punish us.
Mythological concepts of good vs evil, are really no different than fiction like Yoda vs Darth Vader. How afraid are you of being seduced to the "dark side"? GREAT, now apply that to your former religion.
Trust me, you don't have to fear a fictional afterlife anymore than you had a cognition prior to your birth. You can still be good and do good without fear. You will still have ups and downs to some degree, and of course that isn't advocating a free for all so you can rape or murder. It merely means you don't need Santa threatening coal in your stocking.
The threat/bribe motif of religion is vile to me. Real morality to me is doing the right thing even when nobody is watching, even when you don't get rewarded for it.
