In light of all the holiday/Christmas/Kwanza/festivus news this season, I've been thinking a lot about what it is atheists believe? There was a poster displayed within a Nativity scene yesterday or recently that shed some light, but certainly doesn't sum up atheism entirely. The story caused me to wonder this this morning. . .
I once heard of hell described as being the utter and absolute lack of hope - the overwhelming feeling that you are alone. No God, no salvation, no love - it's just nothingness that in a spiritual manner you're somehow aware. In and of itself, nothingness becomes despair and suffering of the self.
I wonder how many atheists, when faced with the immediacy of their own death, suddenly have a change of heart in their 'beliefs' (or lack of). If there is no God or salvation or life after death, then atheism offers only this when you die - nothing. Nothing at all. Is that hell? Maybe. Why would you want to subscribe to that?
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