Atheists with a religous background...?

i don't struggle with the no after life question at all. as for my family i haven't told them yet. i'm planning on it but i'm not looking forward to it.

I really never could conceptualize an afterlife, and when I understood that it is not probable I found it a relief.

First of all, I don't believe that there's no afterlife. I don't pretend to know anything about what happens after death, because I have not seen it, nor has anyone that I know seen it. To be honest, I just get the feeling that it's gonna be okay after I die, whatever happens, and I'm not gonna waste my life worrying about it.

I also don't deny the existence of an intelligent creator, because I know that I can create things, so I don't see why it's not possible that I was created. Again, I don't believe that's how it is, but I also don't NOT believe it. Again, what's the point of worrying about it?

It's called keeping an open mind. The world would be a better place if people would stop pretending that they know things when they don't.

Nah it was no prob I never REALLY cared about an afterlife. And my parents don't care ether.

Interesting question. At first, for a few days it was a terrifying thought. No afterlife? That made death even harsher. How could people be made of worth if that could possibly come to an end? Did that make us any less important? But no, it doesn't. Because we're still important for now, for during life. And that's all we really know about anyways. even if there is an afterlife (I don't believe there is, so I just live my best in this one) But even if there is one, you can't live in the future, so that shouldn't effect how you live right now. One of the biggest moments was when I realised it doesn't matter if there's an afterlife or not: we still live in this one, and by the time the issue of an afterlife matters, we'll already be in it (dead) and know more about that whole situation than we know now. So why try to guess the future?

The harshest thing about not believing in an afterlife is: when someone dies, that's it. Everything that made them wonderful is gone forever. And that stinks. But if they are locked away in an afterlife, it's about the same thing. Death still changes things in the exact same way if they are dead-and-gone or dead-and-ghost. And what is the difference if you can hold their memory close or their angel close? If you can make their memory proud or their ghost-self proud? Either way they aren't here. Both ways you miss them 'til it aches. Both ways you wish they hadn't died. Belief in an afterlife doesn't change much, except that I accept death more now. Before I was always trying to turn back time. Contact those spirits. "pull back the veil" between our world and theirs. Now I realise the only way I'll be able to honor them in this life is to keep on remembering, make them proud, and let people know what wonderful people they missed out on meeting. If I am wrong? And there turns out to be an afterlife? what a happy surprise to see my friends again! As for what "god" thinks, and heaven vs hell: if I live according to what's in my heart, and the christian god judges by what's in your heart...then I will end up in the right place for me. In fact, since Jesus seemed to condemn hypocrites most of all, I bet he'd be pleased with my honest consistency.

Yeah I did tell my mom, she still thinks i'm joking... I don't consider myself as an atheist, even though i dont believe in god.. And I don't agree with all their views...

Yes to both. I did some research and changed my mind a couple of years later. The years I was an atheist were the loneliest and most frightening years of my life.

well... it hard to break the habit of saying " i pray to god." or other things like that. but yes i did tell my family. we have always talked about it. my father is an atheist, and my mother is christian.

Theists may become atheists and atheists may also become sophists, humanists, philanthropists, ignostics...until finally they realize that "all are God's servants and abide by His biddings."
Because, only the love of God is sufficient to all SOULS.