There's a quote that states "Everyone dies, not everyone truly lives." I think when people are focused on the preposterous notion of an afterlife they tend to not value this life as much. In a world where 19 year old kids strap bombs to their chests and walk into coffee shops it serves as a poignant reminder of how religious dogma can twist idealisms of morality and sacrifice into this depraved delusion that this current existence means nothing. People are willing to give up the only life they have for a promise of eternal life. I find it personally very disturbing. It's part of the reason that suicide completely baffles me.
My life isn't perfect, I have stress every day. I worry about bills, and what calamity may strike tomorrow. But at the end of the day, i'm relatively content with my life, I wouldn't trade the life I have for anything. I wake up every morning with a smile on my face because I have one more day of sunshine, happiness, hope, pain, love, and potential. People who are willing to give that up, people who take something so precious for granted disgust me. I can't imagine living forever. Can you imagine waking up every morning for a thousand years, a million years, life would become abbhorently banal. It's because life is so fleeting that it is so valuable. Every day could be your very last, so cherish it, enjoy it, and most importantly, live it.
I know a lot of religious people personally whose entire conviction concerning the afterlife is based around the selfish desire to see loved ones again. While it's something that we all want on some level, it's still pure selfishness. Live as if you'll die tomorrow, and I promise that at the end of your life, no matter how long or short it is, you'll be ready.
My life isn't perfect, I have stress every day. I worry about bills, and what calamity may strike tomorrow. But at the end of the day, i'm relatively content with my life, I wouldn't trade the life I have for anything. I wake up every morning with a smile on my face because I have one more day of sunshine, happiness, hope, pain, love, and potential. People who are willing to give that up, people who take something so precious for granted disgust me. I can't imagine living forever. Can you imagine waking up every morning for a thousand years, a million years, life would become abbhorently banal. It's because life is so fleeting that it is so valuable. Every day could be your very last, so cherish it, enjoy it, and most importantly, live it.
I know a lot of religious people personally whose entire conviction concerning the afterlife is based around the selfish desire to see loved ones again. While it's something that we all want on some level, it's still pure selfishness. Live as if you'll die tomorrow, and I promise that at the end of your life, no matter how long or short it is, you'll be ready.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
