Friday, September 19, 2008

The house believes that atheists are more benevolent than theists.

Proof: Atheists, by and large, are pretty sure that when you die there is nothing else. End of. Stop writing, pens down. Theists on the other hand have all sorts of weird and wonderful explanations about what’s going to happen, and this is based mainly on the word of mouth stories of superstitious cavemen from back in the day when we thought that a chariot brought the sun up each morning and then a woman with wolves or a bell or something drove it away again in the evening. OK? Good.

Now, when a theist dies, I, as an atheist, believe that they will have just a split second to see the error of their ways. They will have a split second in which to bear the crushing cold certainty, of which the unprepared unfortunately will have to suffer, that there is no tunnel of light, no winged angel bearing them aloft, no pearly gates, no cosy “Welcome!” mat to the biggest private members club in history. They will have that split second during which their body will be dead and their brain dying, and as the last neuron is switched off by the cranial equivalent of a night-watchman leaving the premises for good, they'll realise that this really is The End. And then they'll die, as all living things must. Without fanfare. But with the unjust and impertinent factuality that a person on the brink of death will most certainly experience. But they’re lucky, at least it's just for that split second.

Theists on the other hand think that atheists are going to burn in hell for all eternity. And they think we deserve it.

JBG (in Hell)

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