RE: Atheists: Facing the unfaceable
February 5, 2015 at 2:45 pm
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2015 at 2:48 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(February 5, 2015 at 12:55 pm)Lek Wrote: A living being has something within it that all the same materials, simply assembled, do not have.
Is a car alive? I mean, you could put all the parts in a pile and they won't get you home, but if they're in the right place, then you're good to go. That doesn't mean that the car has a spirit. It just means that the rights things are in the right place to do a job.
You might wish to familiarize yourself with the concept of emergent properties.
(February 5, 2015 at 1:25 pm)Lek Wrote: 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.
I don't fear death because I know that it is inescapable, and I refuse to worry over things I cannot control. It has nothing to do with your assumption of feckless immorality.
Far as I can tell, the fear of Hell hasn't stopped Christians from filling our prisons, and fucking up our world.
