Are atheists afraid of hell / punishment for the wicked after death?

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It depends on the atheist, no? There's a difference between someone who merely doesn't believe in any deity but seeks to orient themselves towards constructive living and some addled consoomer that doesn't believe in any deity because the time and energy investments demanded by the resultant duties would potentially cut into the time they use to watch The Mandalorian or whatever it is they watch these days.

The latter type may not fear hell, but they're more likely to fear death in general (as they use consumption as terror management). I reckon, as well, that they would be more susceptible to this fear.
 
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Many atheists I've seen tend to think that religion is the root of all evils in the world, in particularly Christianity, but I do get a few ones who openly admit that Islam and Judaism have their faults. The former is rare because it's often seen as politically incorrect and a way of putting a bullseye on your head.

As for the morality issue that many atheists face. It seems like a lot of their moral values still ties back to Christianity and other Abrahamic religions.
 
Obviously. Why would they spend so much time trying to rationalize that which is irrational if they didn't fear the consequences if they're wrong?
 
Atheists are ugly, fat, frail, weak, bad at sports, stupid and/or gay and they get bullied often, and then they start blaspheming their Creator because they are driven by ressentment and blame God for making them ugly, fat, weak etc. However, God exists beyond time and He made the atheists fat ugly and gay as a rightful punishment for their blasphemies.

Good example is the atheist pedo retard Stephen Hawking, blaming God for making him a funny cripple, while in fact God only made him a funny cripple as a punishiment for his blasphemies and being an atheist pedo retard. Stephen Hawking is now in Hell

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Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
I am atheist and no. When you're dead you just rot in the ground and aren't aware of anything, just like before you were born.

I try to be moral because I have empathy.
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"It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic, too, and what he had experienced was vacancy--a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all. He knew."
 
We aren't scared because we don't believe in it.
I am terrified of reincarnation.
Heard too many stories of kids who remember past lives
 
While we’re here, friendly reminder that any atheist who doesn’t subscribe to Pascals Wager is completely retarded, and every counter argument completely misses the point.
 
Merried Senior Comic said:
I used to be an edgy atheist because I had bad experiences with Christians. My beliefs have since changed but I don't accept most religious dogma. I can sum it up as:

>A single, all powerful creator set all existence into motion then stepped away (Watchmaker analogy)
>Nature is the language of God
>There is no such thing as a soul or an afterlife
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So basically deist or pantheist, no?
 
There's no motive to disbelief. The concept of any religion is in schrodinger's catbox. The Christian God and his equivalents are the simplest way of putting it. The things attributed to him are so beyond the scope of human understanding that there's no way of confirming or denying its existence.
Current science says that the possibility of God is infinitesimal. Science is how we understand the universe, so if it's beyond our understanding, there's no way to say it's surely doesn't exist. We know for a fact we're living right now. We don't know if there's an afterlife and there's no way to prove it. So, to spend one's existence fearing what happens in a life that may not (and based on our knowledge, almost certainly doesn't) exist is foolish and potentially maddening. If I end up in some form of hell, it isn't my fault. Fault lies with the fucked up force that sets up a punishment without ever clearly correcting my behavior.
 
The rat pushes the pleasure button and receives an ultimately harmless, but painful electric shock. It has done this over and over numerous times despite the food button being in sight. Now it finally moves to press that food button.
The rat is euthanized by the observing scientist.

That's hell.

The only information given to the rat was that pushing the pleasure button was bad. No matter how many times it reexamined that info, it was only able to reach that same conclusion. When it reached for the food button, it was killed. Why? Because if it kept pressing pleasure, it would eventually be rewarded. The scientist never gave the rat that information.

Surely the scientist couldn't explain that to the rat. It's beyond it's comprehension.
The punishment was inavoidable, because the rat never could've known about it.

Either the scientist is cruel, or this experiment isn't happening nor has it ever happened.
 
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