Coping: A Big Tool for Religions

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

But one of the biggest trends I feel, and this is evidenced to me by some of the top posts on the exatheist subreddit (Yes it is exists) is that atheism is too "depressing".

Let's actually address this-- If you are in the worldview that there is an afterlife, and this existence is a mere fragment of the infinity that is to come, then trying to swallow the cold reality that this one shot is all we got is a gut punch that is too much for some.

I don't see how believing in a place of eternal punishment is not depressing. And there are many theists who constantly fear that they will be forever tortured every hour of their lives. It is even more depressing than thinking there is no afterlife.

So it seems that saying how atheism is depressing is just another religious sound bite.

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It's not depressing because very few believers in eternal damnation believe that they themselves will be one of the eternally damned.

Sartre said, 'Hell is other people.' The devout tend to think 'Hell is for other people.'

Boru