Sunday Sermonette: To Be or Not To Be
Atheists are not the most popular people. To the religious, we’re fools (it says so in the Psalms - twice!) who push God off his throne so that we may supplant him. We lack morals and deny God so that we can sin without let or hindrance. Even the moderate accuse us of arrogance, though we’re not the ones making claims to be besties with the Creator
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It is a bit weird. Everyone dies (including Yeshua) and most of us don't know when and how it will happen for most of our lives. No one truly knows what occurs after death - some believe in heaven/hell or reincarnation or, as hardcore atheists think, we just cease to exist but there is no proof of anything. Perhaps the religious deep down believe that unless everyone believes exactly like they do there won't exist a heaven/hell.
As for us lacking morals I think in many ways the religious are far more cruel to others then we are. Our attitude is more live and let live. To them moral is believing in an imaginary deity; to us it's being kind and considerate to others.
Shakatany
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("If there is anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now!" Galactic President Zaphod Beeblebrox)
Seriously, you're right. My personal belief is that, absent evidence of anything else, and given how much of what may be called "me" is inseparable from this physical corpus, I will cease to be when the last synapse fires in my brain (if not before). So if I've offended anyone, I need to make amends now. If I want to tell someone I love them, I need to do it now.
At the same time, it is not outside the realm of possibility that either my spouse or I will live for another 30 years, so the instructions of an apocalyptic Palestinian prophet are no good. Selling all that I have and giving to the poor will simply mean that we will be cold and destitute. "Take no thought for tomorrow...," but don't blame me if you're not ready when it gets here.
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