Are atheists more 'alive'?

not really. my boyfriend's mother who recently passed away was catholic, and very much alive. awesome artist, very funny, and loved life and the people in it.

I'm a Buddhist atheist and my life is very full and happy. I try to live each day fully, but it has nothing to do with not believing in an afterlife. Being fully present and mindful are important tenants of Buddhism.

And now, I can't help adding:

Fireball, you're an idiot. Seriously. Atheists, as a whole, do not rely on booze, cigarettes and pills anymore than the rest of the population. The next thing you'll be saying is that we're the only ones having premarital sex, and we all know THAT'S not true.

Casimir Liszynski, Warsaw 1689. "After recantation the criminal develop into performed to the scaffold, the place the executioner tore with a burning iron the tongue and the mouth, with which he were cruel against God; and then his hands, the contraptions of the abominable production, have been burnt at a slow hearth, the sacrilegious paper develop into thrown into the flames; finally himself, that monster of his century, this decide on develop into thrown into the expiatory flames; expiatory if such against the regulation may be atoned for." Bishop Za?uski the complication is that atheism isn't some thing human beings used to publicize, one in all Liszynski's crimes develop into that he reported the certainty that most of the large and robust have been atheists of their hearts and non secular for the needs of order and the state. asserting that nonetheless the two Protestants and Catholics had adequate heretics to maintain them fortunately burning away till they have been residing house knowledgeable by utilising the secular states after the Enlightenment. nonetheless from analyzing some Q&As at here they nevertheless pine for the stable previous days whilst they might spend their evenings around the crackling hearth and burning corpses of non believers.

Atheist just don't understand neither do those who follow Religions about what is going on when it comes to the interpretation of these advanced beings known as the Elohim. I am simply not going to say they do not exist because they did they are spoken about in mythologies as well. You just have to understand that they were advanced humans far beyond our time and not some spirit beings. They have the ability to shape everything that is happening on the Earth. Atheist will need wisdom to survive in the future and Christians will need this wisdom so they won't die in ignorance. It is just too complex for you or anyone to understand.

But what about the after life.Just because you do not believe in one does not mean you will not have one.Do not get me wrong.I am thankful for my time here on earth,but I believe as Jesus promised that someday I will be in paradise.Now I would have to assume that this life here on earth is far from a life in paradise.I love my children my home and everything God has given us here but I just can not wait to see what he has for me on the other side.In paradise.Now atheist on the other hand I guess they should enjoy their life here because after they die they will not get to be in paradise.Because they choose not to be there.

I think it really depends on the personality. Some people know how to have a good time doing what they like and not take things for granted. I don't believe religion plays a role in this.

I like your avatar.

As an atheist. I do think we generally are more 'alive'. Since, I live for this life and make the most of it, I'm not concern with an after life or heaven/hell.

I don't know if that is true. But in comparison to people my age that are Christians, I've done more exploring and traveling. I don't think I like the status quo of life.

No, I think athiests spend more time trying to figure out what is life's purpose. Because they can't know its true purpose without God, they seek satisfaction from everything else...yet they will never find it.

Christians know life's purpose so spend more time trying to fulfill that purpose rather than wasting their time experimenting with everything man has to offer.

Evolution = atheism = no purpose

Dr William B. Provine, Professor of Biological Sciences, Cornell University says:

‘Let me summarize my views on what modern evolutionary biology tells us loud and clear … There are no gods, no purposes, no goal-directed forces of any kind. There is no life after death. When I die, I am absolutely certain that I am going to be dead. That’s the end for me. There is no ultimate foundation for ethics, no ultimate meaning to life, and no free will for humans, either.’

Reference

Provine, W.B., Origins Research 16(1), p.9, 1994.

‘We no longer feel ourselves to be guests in someone else’s home and therefore obliged to make our behavior conform with a set of pre-existing cosmic rules. It is our creation now. We make the rules. We establish the parameters of reality. We create the world, and because we do, we no longer feel beholden to outside forces. We no longer have to justify our behavior, for we are now the architects of the universe. We are responsible to nothing outside ourselves, for we are the kingdom, the power, and the glory for ever and ever.’

Reference

Jeremy Rifkin, Algeny, p. 244 (Viking Press, New York), 1983.

Suicide and Evolution

Gerard: ‘ ... I think that some people may have an inability to cope, and maybe this might sound a bit extreme, but that might be Darwinian theory, the Darwin theory of survival of the fittest. Maybe some of us aren’t meant to survive, maybe some of us are meant to kill ourselves …

‘There’s too many people in the world as it is. Maybe it is survival of the fittest, maybe some of us are meant to just give up, and maybe that would help the species.’

Reference

ABC (Australia) radio, Life Matters with Norman Swan, 4 May 2000: ‘Black Dog Days—The Experience and Treatment of Depression’

Darwin versus Compassion

The full title of Darwin’s Magnum Opus is Origin of the Species by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of the Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Darwin’s other writings reveal how barbarous evolutionary philosophy can be:

With savages, the weak in body and mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick; we institute poor laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of everyone to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands who, from a weak constitution, would formerly have succumbed to smallpox. Thus the weak members of civilised society propagate their kind.

No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but, excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered in the manner previously indicated more tender and more widely diffused. Nor can we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature … We must, therefore, bear the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind.

(Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 2nd Ed., pp. 133–134, 1887)

Yeah, athiests must feel that life more rewarding ... REALY?

For my way of thinking, I think you summed it up nicely... I don't need the promise of a future life to make this one the best I can...

Fireball: It may or not interest you to know that I do none of those and most Atheists I know don't, but I also know Chritians that do...