Atheists: Facing the unfaceable

[Chas]

Because "science can't X" is not positive evidence for your claim; just because one thing can't do something, doesn't mean it's impossible for all things. Meanwhile, the physical readily exists and is demonstrable with ease; if I have evidence for one thing, and shifty fallacious arguments to get around the lack of evidence for another thing, then probabilistically it's more likely that the thing with evidence is true, rather than the thing for whom the proponents have to try and con us into believing. That's just rational.

I didn't even say that it is proven that the life in us is non-material. I said that I think we should not be 100% convinced that it is not.

And I don't believe anyone has claimed 100% certainty. What has been claimed is that there is no evidence for your belief and some evidence against it.

It also just hit me that the thought of death to atheists would be easier to face than for most theists. When facing death, many theists worry that they haven't lived a moral life, and are worried that they will suffer for it after death. An atheist believes he can live in any he wants and he will meet the same end as everybody else. There is no fear of any retribution for what he has done. The Stalins and Neros of the world really don't have any more reason to fear death than the good people.

Correct. What a relief. I can exercise empathy for its own sake.