The empowering side of Atheism

[CapnAwesome]

That this is our only chance at life.

At best, you can say this is our only known chance at life.

But I don't want to hijack your thread. Feel free to ignore this post.

Well, our consciousness, aka life, is tied to brain activity. We know that brain activity ceases when we die, in fact brain activity ceasing is the very definition of dying. So we know the consciousness of self ends with death. Although I can't 'know' for certain that there isn't some sort of magic after life, I can say that I know isn't within the realm of the natural world.