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The question should be not if hell exists, but if one leads a good life does it matter if one is an atheist? I would say that if one is an atheist and leads a good life, hell is not a worry. On the other hand, if one professes to be a Christian or Jew and does not lead a good life, they will go to hell.
I see so many so called religious people avoid death, they are scared of it. It tells me they do not really have the faith they profess.
Having nursed both my parents to their death, both uber religious, I can attest to how they hung on for dear life even when the quality of that life was not worth hanging onto.
I had to coax both of them to let go.
My mother who had a very painful cancer, cursed god and asked, "what did I do to deserve this?"
For someone that was faithful for over 60 years, that demise of hers was ess the final straw that proved to me that there was no inkling of me EVER going back to being xian again.
Her reward, a little casket atop my father's little casket and 6 feet under the surface - simply worm food.
Not afraid of hell, but my main question is, what's the deal with heaven??? I mean, can it really be that good? A place where no bad happens, is a place where NOTHING happens, for ever and ever and ever...
Death is kind of a mystery, and technically, as long as the Earth is alive, then you exist in some form, regardless if you're conscious or aware of it. As living beings, we're made straight from the Earth, which means, we all as a whole, have existed for billions of years.
You know what would be better than hell/heaven after death? Being able to see how this thing called existence first started, and then BAM, you're gone, or reborn, or transfered ???? That'd make an interesting movie
I don't think the people caught in war and famine, etc. have created their own hell. Hell is often brought to them via the U.S. empire and EU, etc.... It is very callous of you to say and think that everyone chooses their own hellish circumstances. Abused children do not choose their hell. Raped and murdered people do not choose their own hell. Many people held in prison and tortured do not choose their hell. Hell is put upon most people by selfish, unloving, evil men/humans. You have always seemed a rather cold person. I know you do not represent all atheists - they're not all as rude and callous as you - that's for sure.
My comment was directed at the loons (majority of posters in these threads) that are utterly petrified of the bibical hell of superstition, and in the process create the only hell they will face right here, right now.
Well what the heck I am a crude heathen barbarian dog kicking baby eating atheist in the mind of most here so pile on with your christian judgmental lunacy. You are way to quick to jump completely off the deep end in your misguided indignation. You normally come across as a rational person, with a sane view of religion, unlike many, but now I'm not that sure, for while you may profess it is your gods job to judge, you seem all to eager to make your own judgment.
I guess I should expect irrational assumptions from what is said from people that spend so much time doing the very same thing from their book of ancient superstitions. The habit of reading what you want into anything is what you do, why did I expect different.............
You are just another theist that can't imagine atheists having no fear of the imaginary...There is no bias, just honesty.
I understand it, but not ALL atheists would. That is where bias is involved.
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