As an atheist, people have asked me many times, “could you tell someone whose loved one just died, that there is no afterlife?” to which I have always answered with another question: “could you tell someone that is planning to kill himself, that after this life there is a paradise waiting for us?”
Being an atheist is hard most of the time, unless you are very lucky and live in a country where people genuinely don’t care. And even in those countries people tend to have a bias against atheists.
We have been called bullies for defying religion while in fact they are the ones condemning us to eternal suffering no matter how good we do to the world.
Just being an atheist can get you killed in some countries, being an atheist makes it way harder for someone to win an election in the united states (a secular nation) and even in some states books there is still written down that atheist can’t run for office.
Atheist have been called terrorists, immoral, murderers, etc., for no reason more than our lack of believe in a supernatural being.
I was called immoral and a corrupt person trying to escape judgment by my own uncle before I was practically forced to come out as an atheist.
What I’m trying to say is that… I know is hard, harder that any theist could ever understand, and sometimes you feel alone, and you wish there would be some supreme being that cared about your wellbeing, but there isn’t, and you still have to deal with your life.
Being an atheist is already hard as it is, and is even harder for people like me, that suffer from depression, and sometimes I just want to give up, but I don’t. cause the will to live doesn’t come from having an objective meaning in life, and it certainly doesn’t come from an unhealthy relationship with a supreme being, it comes from inside us.
We are animals, we all have that will to live, we just have to find it. you don’t necessarily need a purpose, or a meaning, or a god, no one needs any of that. It may vary from individual to individual, but our will to live comes from inside us, and happiness doesn’t come from knowing there is a paradise waiting for us, it comes from internal peace, from being good with yourself, with who you are.
Im fully with you.
Dont waste your time into religion.
We just have limited time in this earth and when its over we are gone. At least we were here :)
Im just afraid to die too early. In general im at ease with my mortal existense !
Hello fellow non-believer! I just came across your article and wanted to say hello.
I'm sorry I don't have a whole lot to touch on following your article but wanted to just put myself out there to let you know you're not alone in this!
I too suffer from depression! Coming off a bout as we speak! But it's getting better.
Have a beautiful day!
Thanks, you too 😊
being a hardcore atheist is also incredibly stupid ..lol.. Not saying some religion isnt also ,so dont get up on your high horse and have a open mind.. There is no proof in the non existence of God or a higher power , so why wouldnt you float your self in the agnostic pile lol.. Thats like saying i dont believe in aliens, or aliens arnt real, wheres the proof?.. "because i said so"
atheists are agnostics, ones involves belief and the other knowledge. atheism doesnt need proof since is the default position, and you dont get to call me hardcore until I burn someone at the stake
dude , maybe google the difference, agnostic are undecided ether way , they dont believe but they dont not believe.. atheists straight up dont believe.. But alas no point throwing pearls to swine..
I know the difference, i used to denominate myself as an agnostic for a while, either way your point is just semantics, which I find irrelevant
well then why dont you say your monotheistic if its all just semantics ;)
I'm an atheist a long time and I would really like to change it. But it's not so easy, I'm sorry. I simply know too much about the history of my former religion (Christianity), also about the evolutionary and cognitive explanation of any religion. And a little about the science :)
So be patient. In the world, there is a big change, the rise of the individual beliefs, collosal rise of the religious nones. They are more friendly toward different worldviews than the fighters of organised religions.
No worldview is perfect anyway. We just know too little.