The empowering side of Atheism

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I'd just like to share a clip from the movie Touching the Void, where climber Joe Simpson talks about how his lack of belief in the afterlife gave him the drive to keep alive and save his own life. Joe, with a broken leg had fallen into a 200 foot crevasse and was almost certainly going to die. Not through a miracle, but through his own perseverance ended up saving his own life. The part about religion starts around the 3:00 mark.





Atheism can be an empowering thing. This is our only chance at life.