Atheists: Facing the unfaceable

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However, we all still have the manner of our death to fear, and the legacy we leave behind. The lack of something explicitly phrased as a reward or punishment doesn't mean death is equal for everyone.

To you it is equal because you will have no knowledge or perception of the legacy you leave behind. So it will be meaningless to you at that point.

So because I won't be around to see it, because I can only concern myself with it by planning it, it's meaningless? You wanna try and justify any of the things you say? If I donate money to charity, I won't have any knowledge or perception of who benefits from that money, it doesn't mean the money ceases to exist, or that the gesture has no meaning at all to me. So what if at some point I won't be around? My legacy matters to me now, it matters to the people I leave behind, to the world that I've lived in and experienced my entire life; it doesn't stop mattering just because I won't personally benefit from it.

Why do you christians need to be so selfish and solipsistic? This entire outlook you have seems to hinge on the ideas that things that don't directly benefit you have no meaning, and that if you someday cease to be, then reality will too.