Just to be clear, since I don’t believe in god(s) it stands that I also don’t believe in the afterlife either. This ahouldn;t be a strange concept to understand as an atheist, but for some, that declare themselves atheist, the answer becomes, not so sure.

There’s evidence of this in polling those that claim to be atheists. A small percentage to be sure, but enough to make even an evangelical believer to scratch his (or her!) head. Why is it that human beings cannot come to the realization that this life is it? There is no more, nothing later on, no heaven or hell to look forward to or fear.

When you kill s bug in your house or step on one outside, do you wonder whether that bug is going to “bug heaven”? If so, does this make you a bug murderer? Just asking.

I think that some atheists continue to believe in an afterlife due to the human ego. It really is why believers hold on to the idea when there’s nothing to prove there is or isn’t an afterlife. So, wouldn’t it be good just for personal mental health to at least think there might be some reward after this life? If a person has that little consideration for himself, well I guess it doesn’t hurt but in the long term (centuries. millennia) the ego in this matter has done nothing but cause harm to humanity.

How many lives have been sacrificed to some god or because of some god? Countless over time and it continues to this day, just in another form. When I finally close these eyes, if there is grief to be had among some, it should be that I am gone, forever, and not just until we see each other again. In another life.