Dealing with Death as an Atheist

[henryp]

Wallym: I didn't mean to be dictating a standard for theists behaviour, only to analyse behaviour. I agree, I'm not trying to say theists are the only ones who act strangely. As with the rollercoaster, it seems like our instincts, reflexes and warning signals are reading from a different hymn sheet to the rest of us. Does that mean our body as a whole still doesn't believe what we think it believes? It has to be acting on some level of beliefs (as a basic example, gravity). I guess it goes into a different state, perhaps an overly paranoid one to try and assure our survival. I don't claim to be a behaviour expert or that my judgements are absolute, I just like discussing these things.

I made a whole thread before about how I think theist behaviour is on the whole the same as atheist behaviour though, even outside of extreme situations. I'm not trying to criticise theists for this, I'm observing and commenting on the apparent dissidence. It's more extreme here, but I'm not trying to pretend atheists are immune either. The human brain's ability for dissidence, with regard to any subject, is astonishing. The sunscreen scenario is a good example of that.

https://atheistforums.org/thread-32744.h...+behaviour

I think you've got the right intentions, but your impression of Theists, and this boards impression in general, is a caricature.  And everybody here spends all their time talking about how stupid this caricature they've created is, and patting themselves on the back for being so much smarter than this non-existent idiot who they've decided represents all Theists.