I want to enlarge on a point already made. We non-believers do not fear death. We accept it. It is the religious who fear death and refuse to accept it. They make up this "soul" thingy and endow it with immortality so they can believe there is no death. And why do they do this? Because they are so FEARFUL that they may pass away. That indeed their existence after death will be exactly like it was before birth - nothing. This they FEAR. All the supernatural religions have this common element. Fear that death is the end of existence. Non-believers know it is. And we are much MORE attached to this life because we know it is ALL the life we will ever have. Each second becomes important because there are only a finite number of them.
For the believer this life is just a dress rehearsal for the much better and longer life to come. Which is why I often ask a true believer why he is still here. If this life is so nasty brutish and short why not jump to the much better life to come? As several do every day.
They most often equivocate, like Hamlet and mutter about "sin" and hell fire and such nonsense; and so become the cowards he noted.
Dont forget that not everybody will get there, to that kingdom, you are here as you say in a dress rehearsal. what do you think we are rehearsing?
I think that it is to live a life in accordance with God, according to Gods laws and commandments, I am a Christian and I think that this life is very good, but is only a shadow for the one to come if I persevere till the end, I also believe that God has a purpose for my life, committing suicide is murder of one self and will have as a consequence not entering into the promise.
Christian has this very clear God calls and elects us, we don elect Him.
Are you blaming Christianity for the high rates of suicides?
I think that is more the case of too many people not having no hope. To live without hope.
Who is more like to want to end their life, Those that believe that this is all there is to life or those that have hope?
actually, i don't believe in eternal punishment. consequences can be eternal though, and you have only yourself to blame for those. the temporary punishment is God's way of cleansing you of anti-agnostic wrongs. If you confess your agnosticism, however, you are forgiven and free to believe what-ever you see fit...except anti-agnosticism because that would be contradictory of agnosticism. truth is what-ever i see fit. and my religious views are verily fit, in my believe. well in truth, im sure that anti-agnostic afterlife will feel like complete and eternal torture but that is only because we are so limited unlike God.
