Disillusionment and anger are understandable, once a person realizes how religion may have impacted his life negatively. And some are bound to despair if they have trouble dealing with the truth of their mortality. Most people seem to get by just fine, though, because in spite of religious indoctrination most people live their lives as if it's the only one they have and only offer lip service to religious beliefs. When those people become atheists, their lives change very little unless their religious friends or family ostracize them or find other ways to make their lives difficult.
As for death, well... yeah. That's pretty much how it ends for everyone.
As for death, well... yeah. That's pretty much how it ends for everyone.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
