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Related: About this forumNew Video: Are Atheists Afraid of Death?
Posted on April 10, 2015
by Godless Mom
http://godlessmom.com/new-video-are-atheists-afraid-of-death/
Tommy2Tone
(1,307 posts)Some just lie about it.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)than are religious people. nt
cbayer
(146,218 posts)belief in a god.
OTOH, I think the only thing that theists have in common is a belief in god.
Anyone who generalizes further is making a mistake.
So then she just goes on about how religious people feel about death and pats herself on the back for her superior attitude.
Guess what? Just like for atheism, there is no doctrine in theism that tells people how to fell about death. YOu have to ask each one of them, just like you have to ask atheists.
PassingFair
(22,434 posts)Personally, I don't fear death, I fear pain.
It makes me sad to contemplate my death or the death
of a loved one, but I think sadness is different than "fear".
I don't worry about "hell" or look forward to "heaven".
clydefrand
(4,325 posts)and I consider myself a atheist, but I'm 80, and the way this country/this world is going, I'm
actually looking for to dying - but I'm certainly not going to do myself in. I might live another
10 - 20 years - I don't know and don't really care. I've had a fairly good life, and still in fairly good health.
rug
(82,333 posts)My father-in-law was sick for a while and one day he just said. "I'm ready." He was an atheist as well.
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)No. Death is like pre-birth. What were you doing before you were born?
stone space
(6,498 posts)Didn't like it then, and I don't expect to like it any better after I'm dead, either.
In fact, the whole notion just pisses me off to even think about it!
That's my atheist take on the subject!
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)she gave the simple answer in 10-20 seconds or so.
Then aimless yakking for 4 minutes, 2 of which I made it through.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)TBA
(825 posts)Why should I fear a state (being dead) where fear does not exist?
I'm sure the end of my life will be very sad if I have time to think abut it. However, I hope I can remain grateful for having lived.
rug
(82,333 posts)Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
PassingFair
(22,434 posts)If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Epicurus
rug
(82,333 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)Though as several people here have pointed out, we were all 'dead' for many millennia until we were born.
Was it Woody Allen who said, 'I'm not afraid of dying; I just don't want to be there when it happens'?
cbayer
(146,218 posts)as well as gross ambivalence about religion.
Love him.
rug
(82,333 posts)DerekG
(2,935 posts)The notion of the ol' "lights-out"/fade-to-black is unsettling, to say the least. Everything we experienced, everything we were...gone.
Of course, there are worse conceits. Imagine if reincarnation turned out to be true? What if I was reborn in a warzone, or to a couple of crack addicts or tweakers? Hell, I'd take the fade-to-black anyday.