RE: New atheist here, gotta say, not loving it
November 29, 2017 at 4:57 pm
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2017 at 4:58 pm by Simon Moon.)
(November 28, 2017 at 6:52 pm)Lek Wrote: If he's afraid, it's probably because he's not 100% convinced of his atheism. In order to not fear death an atheist must be totally sure that there is no God.
I fear dying, I don't fear death. As Mark Twain once said, "I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it".
Also, you seem to be creating a false dichotomy here. Either 'there is no god', or the Christian god exists. Seems that many Christians need a reminder from time to time, atheists disbelieve in ALL gods.
Even if I am not '100% of my atheism' (that still does not make any sense), that does not mean I put the most probability in the Christian god existing.
Nor, does it mean, that if a god exists, does that mean that there is an afterlife, by default. There are quite a few god concepts that don't include an afterlife.
Quote:Otherwise there will always be the thought of the possibility of existence afterwards and if he has prepared himself for that possibility.
Is this a veiled version of Pascal's Wager?
The only afterlife I consider a possibility, is one where all religions were created by a god to test the gullibility of humans. Those of us that used our critical thinking skills, in order to come to the conclusion that none of them are supported by evidence and reasoned argument, get to go to the good afterlife.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
