(April 7, 2019 at 9:03 am)joe90 Wrote: Just wondering, do Atheists like the idea of the afterlife? Do they wish that there was one? Or would they rather have eternal oblivion after death? This is not a troll question.
I guess it would depend on the version of an afterlife.
As long as I could choose when it ended, there were always new activities to learn, new placed to explore, new things to learn, etc, I might be ok with it.
All of the afterlives as described in any religious text (Quran, Bible, Book of Mormon, Bhagavad Gita, Vedas, etc) are horrible sounding to me. I would definitely choose death over any of them.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.