Quote ="bren2k"I don't have a god - and yes, no afterlife is exactly what I'm banking on; for that reason, I try to make best use of the time I have available, safe in the knowledge that dead is dead. You might believe otherwise, but that belief is based on blind faith in a text that can't in any way shape or form be verified. If anyone here is a sheep who can't see the real truth behind the lies, it's you - religion is an invention used to exercise power and control over populations, and it appears you've fallen for it hook, line and sinker.'"
In answer to your evil heinous post. I won't go into a tirade about how atheism is worse than religion, but I will just say that you atheists are just buying into a different reality tunnel. Its just as dogmatic and narrow as the Abrahamic tunnel. Not Believing in God is one thing, but All the Atheists I have read ( Harris, Hitchens, Dawkins, Dennet, Marx, Nietzsche, De Sade) not only deny a belief in God, but everything else has got to be false too, Souls, Atlantis, UFOs, Cryptids, the Occult, Fairies, Any afterlife scenario, morality, according the the mouthpieces of Atheism, they are all false.
I was an atheist once upon a time, and it made me so miserable If there is no afterlife, we might as well blow our freaking brains out, because we're gonna die anyway and we are just waiting for oblivion. Honestly the false dichotomous Heaven and Hell is better than Oblivion. If I was an atheist, I would be spiritually dead. That is why I believe in God. God is emotional rather than intellectual, You must open up your heart, not your mind.outright rejection in favour of science alone, including the ridiculous theories like big bang, is no different than the main-stream religion as far as brainwashing, conditioning, irrational close-minded thought process, etc. The problem being belief in the unknown, faith in the unproven. You've placed your faith in materialistic theories as facts. There is your religion. Atheism is the path of misery.