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Penn - Atheism Gives Solace While Dealing With Loss [Video]

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  • AlwaysAwake, on 05/14/2008, -0/+6Why must death be "bad" or "good". It is just natural. Every birth certificate is a death sentence, and everyone on the planet but a tiny few, will be dead in 100 years. It is beyond judgment as goog or bad; it just is what happens. Are such losses emotionally challenging for us ? Certainly. The genuine caring and sharing of others can see us through, as the pain passes.
  • wingnut2600, on 05/14/2008, -0/+6Loss is a terrible thing, but the idea that good people suffer while a omnipowerful entity allows pain and suffering to occur in the world is a terrible idea. I don't consider myself an atheist per se, because that implies allegiance, and there is none.

    I am a person that has never believed; truly believed that is, I thought there was a God (big G) until I was 4 or so... until I could read the writing on my mother's cards from Santa and see the similarities between their writing. Until I questioned why there needs to be a creator for all of these things that are here and why something needed to make them other than random chance.

    That said, I am not an atheist, because that implies that I believe in no God, which implies that a belief is a necessary and normal thing. This I have never believed.

    I am. I feel for people because I love them. When they are gone, the only thing that remains is their memory, so the time with them is precious. The idea that someone is in a better place belittles the plane on which we inhabit solely and casts an artificial and false veil over the common, wonderful experiences of everyday.

    By the way, I have no wonderful, everyday life; I am plagued with depression and a sorrow that we all will pass into nothing. Yet a deity that makes our lives meaningless... our suffering a test and our existence a joke is cruel idea to give to those that do believe and hope for something better while their fleeting, precious life seeps from the weak confines of their grip.

    There is beauty in death if it means that life has been lived; however short, but not if it was just passing along to "something better."
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