So, if you don't believe in life after death, that makes you an atheist?
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If you don't believe in Life after Death then I would pick up the Bible. Especially if you are an atheist, how do you know what you don't believe if you haven't done your homework.
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if you were an atheist and you went to hell you would deny that you are in hell because you don't believe in it.  I am an atheist, not the most hardcore of atheists, but anyways, I would feel dumb if I were in hell because I would be wrong.
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Ok your question makes no sense, but is interesting. There is more to life after death than a "hereafter." There's a heaven and hell, and yes, both are real.\nI'm sorry for you that you don't believe in the God I know. I don't worry about my life because I know I'm taken care of.
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An atheist does not believe in a higher power.  An agnostic isn't sure if there is one or not, and typically an agnostic doesn't go seeking for spirituality or answers to that question.
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1. I get fullness of life, love, and hope, even as an atheist. People of faith do not have a monopoly on happiness.\n\n2. I believe that you do not get "eternity in heaven," and that your core beliefs are based on misinformation.\n\n3. Assuming you are right, I would rather not go to heaven than to spend one day embracing the intolerance, prejudice, and hatred that goes hand in hand with the modern interpretation of Christianity.
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As in not going to hell when you don't believe in God?  In my opinion, no.
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No, once you start believing in a god, you stop being an atheist. Knowing that god doesn't exist is the definition of atheism. An atheist could still have a religion, though. Buddhists, for example. An atheist might believe in other supernatural things, besides god. Usually not, though. Atheists don't think that religion doesn't exist, if that's what you mean. That would be stupid. I'm perfectly aware of the existance of religion, I just find it pointless.
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I don't believe in heaven, I'm an atheist.\n\nBut if there is a heaven I am definitely going.  I'm a great guy and do nice things, I let spiders out instead of crushing them and hold doors open for old people.  I'm nice, and I don't believe God requires a particular religion or belief to get in.  It's all about your actions, not what you profess to believe.\n\nBut I'll probably accept Jesus into my heart right before I die, just to be sure.
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None. i'm an atheist. And I don't know what my destiny is because i don't believe that you can tell the future and you never know what's going to happen tomorrow (or in a year). respect is important. But it doesn't make it beautiful.
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You cant define atheism by terms like 'believing' or 'non believing'. That's like defining light as absence of darkness. Atheism is thought of indifference towards all religious concepts. Even A person who looks down on religion or criticizes God is also not an atheist. A true atheist is not bothered.
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I believe so, judging from the way in nature all things are recycled, I'd have to say even if you were atheist, you'd have to believe in SOME form of reincarnation, after you die you become food for other lifeforms who in turn become food  for other lifeforms, if you define a soul as "life energy" then your life energy has "incarnated" itself in just about every form of life known to man.
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That depends on your beliefs. If you're religious, some form of heaven. More specifically, if you were a buddhist, you would reincarnate back into Earth as another person or even an animal. If you were an atheist, then you don't even have a soul to begin with in that view.
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in the army i worked for a major who started out an agnostic. he later became an atheist. as an adult he was a christian chaplain. John Wayne was an agnostic until the week before he died, sometimes it takes longer for some people.
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I don't think you have to believe in God to believe in some kind of afterlife, there are many relgions in the world each one with it's own beliefs and viewpoints.  I personally believe in a soul, but that does not automatically mean I believe in Heaven.  I do believe something wonderful will happen when I die, I am just not sure what that is yet, and I hope it is along time before I find out.  Maybe he was there, because evryone was thinking about him.  It's hard to say.
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Not really.  Being an atheist is not simply being "unreligious."  Being an atheist means you believe in NO GOD whatsoever.  I believe in God but am not religious.  Therefor, I am not an atheist.
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Understand that I'm not coming at this from a religious viewpoint.You need to examine your terms.You can be any of the first three things you call yourself,no problem,but you can't be the first AND the last.There is a basic confict there-and so you can't be a Christian Atheist.Now,I know,you're gonna say,I believe Jesus was a good man,but not necessarily God with a capital G.Well okay,but but atheism believes there is nothing in the spiritual realm AT ALL.No soul,No spirit,no gods,etc.etc.So you can be an atheist,but you can't be a Christian,at least not in the the traditional sense.
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Personally I don't have any sort of spirituality.  There is such a thing as nontheistic religious humanism (see first source link), but if anything, I'd wager that atheists are normally Secular Humanists (see second source link).\n\nBasically to be an atheist, one must be without belief in deities.  There are different kinds of atheism, though: strong atheism, weak atheism, implicit atheism, explicit atheism, ignosticism and apatheism.\n\nStrong atheism: the belief that no deity exists. It is a form of explicit atheism, meaning that it consciously rejects theism.\n\nWeak atheism: the absence of belief in the existence of deities, without the belief in the non-existence of deities.\n\nExplicit atheism: refection of a belief in a god. This deliberate rejection of theism presupposes familiarity with theistic belief.\n\nImplicit atheism: absence of a belief in god without explicitly rejecting or denying theism. This form does not require familiarity with the idea of a god.\n\nIgnosticism: the view that the question of the existence of God is meaningless because it has no verifiable (or testable) consequences and should therefore be ignored. It is often considered synonymous with theological noncognitivism (the argument that religious language, and specifically words like "god", are not cognitively meaningful).\n\nAn apatheist is someone who has little or no interest in deities to point that he or she does not care whether deities exist and, typically, is not interested in deciding whether he or she believes in deities. In other words, an apatheist is someone who lacks belief in gods and lacks interest in gods to the point that he or she doesn't bother to determine whether he or she actually disbelieves in gods.