This came up in coversation today briefly and I figured I would explain here as so many people seem to be unsure.
Im going to divide this into 3 sections one for each.
-what definetly won't happen when you die.
-what most likely will happen.
-what is not out of the realm of possibility.
Part I (faith) What definetly will not happen when you will die:
You will not go to heaven, but don't fret as you will not go to hell either. In fact its 100% fact that any "religion" based account of the afterlife is absolutely false. How do I know this? Well its relatively simple if you think about it. There are several thousand religions in this planet some extinct, some still practiced. All believe their own beliefs are the only path to salvation. Since all of them cannot be true, and there is no emprical evidence to support any of them, its pretty safe to say none of them are. Most of them made up thousands of years ago to explain things that science could not. Many of these things have since been explained, like the Sun, moon etc. And from a christian standpoint "God" certainly would not create all these children in his image only to send the vast majority to hell, remember even competing denominations ofthe christian churches think the others are going to hell. Religion does nothing for us anymore, all of its good points have been absorbed into the secular governments (do not steal, ,kill etc) and all that is left is the faith closing the mind to hope and reason.(but this isnt about religion that's another topic).
Part II (reason)- What will most likely happen when you die - You will die. You will cease to exist. Its a pretty crappy deal, but if you think about it, it makes the most sense. As you have no conscience recollection from the beginning of the universe to now, you most likely will not have any recollection of any of the time that happnes after you die. Even if you continue to exist with no recollection of your memories here on earth, the person you are here is still effectively dead. Our memories make us who we are. People have a starting point (birth), things that are infinite dont have a starting point or an ending point for that matter.
Part III (hope) - What is not out of the realm of possibility - We continue to live on. Its still possible although unlikely that there is a supreme being, or even if there is not there is very very much we don't know about our universe, that it would be completely ignorant not to leave the door open for any possibility(except religion). We are just scratching the surface of our understanding of our universe, the possibility of parallel universes, other dimensions etc. You get the point.
Since we can be 100% sure that god doesnt exist in a chrisitan sense, but only 80% sure that he doenst exist at all, we have no choice but to be agnostic. We hope that this isn't the end even though all we know now points in that direction.
I read a book awhile back by TL Galin called "I'm dead, the hell you say, so now what" which the authors take on death is that we chose the life we live it before we live it, and based on how difficult of life we pick is how much our soul grows during that life. Interesting concept and certainly possible, and just as valid as anything else ever written.
So there you have it, absolute undeniable facts as always :)
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While I agree with all of your points, I think there is a slight flaw in your logic. Keep in mind, I'm not religious at all. I was agnostic for many years, but now actually find myself leaning towards atheism, but that's besides the point. I don't think you can give up on Heaven because there are too many religions that argue over what it is. At least, I think that's what you meant when you said:
"Since all of them cannot be true, and there is no emprical evidence to support any of them, its pretty safe to say none of them are."
Say that you were a detective assigned to solve a murder. You can see the dead body in front of you with a knife sticking out of his back. You know that he's dead. You interview ten witnesses. Five of them say that they saw a man with one leg hobble up and kill the dead man with a knife. The other five in the room saw nothing, and think the man probably died of a heart attack and fell on the knife. You interview the five that say he was killed by a one-legged man, and all of their stories are close to identical, but not completely. For example, some of them say the killer had dark hair, some say he had light hair, some say he was tall, some short, some fat, some skinny. If, after interviewing all of these people, would you say that it's impossible that the man was killed by another man with one leg? I doubt it. You'd probably tell your officers to be on the lookout for a man with one leg, even though you aren't sure of the other details.
Allow me to make sense of the analogy. The dead man is the miracle of the modern world, with intelligent beings and tall buildings and (gasp!) robots. The five witnesses who claim to have seen a one-legged man are religions, the one-legged murderer is God, and the other five people in the room represent science. Both science and religion can explain how the man died. It could have been a heart attack, it could have been a murder. You weren't there, you don't know. Even if you don't think there was any one-legged killer at all, assuming that just because of the differences in his other described attributes is not enough to dismiss it completely.
The bottom line is that other people's thoughts on religion in no way impacts the reasons why I choose not to be religious. That probably was a very roundabout way to get to my point, but I just really wanted to tell a story that involved a one-legged knife murderer. C'mon, the image is pretty funny.
This is probably the longest comment in Blogspot history. I'm sure you'll stick to robots now for fear of having to read another one of these long comments.
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