Dealing with Death as an Atheist

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Wallym: I'll make this my last statement as this has drifted off topic, and then I'll leave the matter.

Indeed, I presented exaggerated thoughts in my behaviour thread to make the point, they are meant to be strawmen. The point is that if people truly believed what they are saying, I would expect to see some differences in behaviour. Yet I don't. So I can only conclude that they don't really believe them, or are finding some way to rationalise the need to act as if they aren't true anyway. Some people will be the former, some the latter.  I'm not saying they are even aware they are doing it. I asked for examples in that thread for anyone to try and show this point or my other point to be wrong; which is that when theists do drastically differ in behaviour from atheists, the outcome is usually bad. If you have counter examples to either, please go ahead an post them.

I wasn't trying to say every theists puts all this thought into every action. It was my approximation of how they would reconcile their beliefs with their actions, if they stopped to analyse them fully. It's not mean to be literal.

If you want to continue to discuss it, please post it in my thread.