(January 10, 2009 at 1:15 am)puglover Wrote: As an atheist how do you cope with death?
Does death challenge your views as an atheist?
The problem is not the act of death but the life after death.Have you thought where you will go: to Paradise or to Hell?
As an atheist I think for sure that I will go to Hell and therefore I have allready ordered a chair in Hell where it is nice and a hot so that I can burn for the next 100 millions of years.
Let's think ,if a person is going to be burned for a 100 million of years then every day it will suffer only of an infinitisemal small burning so that a lot of time your body will be even healthier then on Earth.
The pictors depicting the suffering of Hell as Michael Angelo's
paintings in the Vatican have not given a thought to this aspect, otherwise they would have depicted the souls going to Hell as laughing instead of the fear which is spread all over their faces.
Now seriously,to get out of the closet and to declare youself as an atheist,needs when you are in certains circle of your familly or friends, some courage.
To make macabre jokes as that above needs a little more courage because it plays on the deep fears of people from death, even yours albeit you are a convinced atheist.
