It’s time for someone to say it, just in case anyone is unsure. Charlie Kirk is dead. There. I said it. It’s horrible what happened to him and hopefully, his murderer will see justice. The reason I’m saying this now is from shear exhaustion from seeing all of the posts abut him or his widow. I don’t care about what Erika is doing or might do and I’m vertain that Charlie is not looking down on us from heaven.
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“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” – Mark Twain
What happens to us after death? It’s a creepy question, isn’t it, but don’t most of us wonder if this life is it or if, depending on what religious belief followed, there’s some sort of afterlife whether it is reward or punishment, after this life ends? Everyone does, yea believer and non-believers. As a non-believer, I choose to not think about it because, like the quote above from Mark Twain, death is, well, nothingness to me. I think of it as having been in a deep sleep where I don’t remember dreaming, then waking up. I woke up from, well, nothing, in my mind. when I dies, I return to just that. Nothing.
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I was thinking about this post I recently wrote in response to some questions from a reader. One of the questions, if in fact not the main question was about talking to your children about death, as an atheist. I personally don’t believe that there’s anything beyond this life but as I responded, no one actually knows. That’s the best answer anyone could possibly give and anyone that says for sure that the absolutely know what occurs when we die, is either lying or fooling themselves. But that started me thinking about this Pew Research Poll of atheists I read a while back because for some reason, I was certain that within that poll, I had read that there were atheists polled that did believe in an afterlife. I wasn’t disappointed when I revisited the poll.
So, something that’s never happened here; Someone clicked on the Contact button on the homepage and sent me some questions. I thought I would go ahead and attempt to respond here. Of course, I’m not going to mention the name of the person, but I found his questions as something I hear personally from others that struggle with their faith and are at a point in their lives when they’re considering leaving that faith. Read on if you’re interested. Note that I’mnot an adive columnist and that anything I say here is based on my own experience.