Some atheists think that they will die and become dust and that's all. So they will die, then their children will live instead of them; so they will live by their children, and their energy will be transmitted to their offspring.
The dust as you call it, is our earth, from where we came, and it is natural
that we return to the earth and become part of it again, easy to understand.
The genes of the parents live on throughout the lives of their children, and their's and
their's and their's, there is no energy that is transmitted to the offspring, after death, only during
the lives of both, when the children see and appreciate the energy of their parents,
and feed off of it.
To this illusion of course they haven't any proof, but only their guessing and wishing and desiring that this subject will be as such; so that there will be no spiritual life to follow the death, and everything will end, and they will therefore escape with their sins and transgressions on people and oppression of themselves and others.
Just as you think I am 'wishing and guessing', I am thinking the same of you, see how
it works?, you believe one thing and I believe another, simple, but the difference is
this, I am not preaching constantly to you that you should 'do' what I do, or 'believe'
what I believe, I accept you as you are and respect your right to believe what you
want, but you are so 'rigid' you can't do that, and that's too bad, I guess in your life,
you aren't allowed to do that.
We had a good friend years ago, who sat down with us one day and informed us that
he would not be coming to our house, or be our friend any longer, because he wasn't
successful in converting us to his religious way of life, and didn't want to mix with us
any more because if the world came to an end, he wouldn't be able to help us, as we
wouldn't be part of the 'saved' ones.
That is so sad and outragious, but it was his choice, and we never saw him again.
Athiests don't believe in 'sin' as you speak, we live with the honour system, don't want
to hurt one another, care for our children, love our children, and we don't have to
answer to any imaginary gods, just to 'each other', so, we don't believe that we die
and take our sins anywhere. You see, what happens in your system only affects you,
and others like you, not us, we don't believe what you believe, so it is irrelevant,
once it leaves your belief system.
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I say to them: every man is a unique individual personality; each man is a separate entity. They are certainly different persons than their children, and their children are different from them.
Of course each human is a complete individual and unique in their own way, but
everyone carries the genes of their parents, and that will never leave them, and
they will pass their genes on to their children, that is a connection by 'blood' that
bonds them forever, and when the parents are gone, the memories are there, and
adds to the strength of the lives of the children.
Another point: if man disappears from existence by his death (as do some atheists claim), what benefit for him that his children and all people that are on earth will live and will be happy or not happy?
It does not benefit the dead parent, but the children can live on, carrying the genes
of the parents, be happy as a result of a good life with the parents, and the help of
the parents during their lives together and apart, we all have each other, and there
is no 'strength' stronger than that.
And if he suffers the punishment in the afterlife, will it avail him anything that his children are happy and prosperous or are in misery and wretchedness?
There is no afterlife.
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The explanation:
(O mankind, safeguard [yourselves] against [the punishment of] your Lord,
and fear [the punishment of] a day when no parent can avail anything for his begotten [son or daughter], nor can any begotten [son or daughter] avail anything for his parent;
surely the promise of God [about the judgment, the punishment and the reward] is true;
so let not the Worldly life deceive you [with its ornamentation, and so divert you from celebrating God],
nor let [Satan:] the deceiver deceive you to [disobey] God.)
All of the above only affects you and yours, has no connection to my life at all.
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The explanation:
(On the day when man shall flee from his brother [when this has been sentenced to Hell], his mother and his father, his wife and his sons;
Every man, that day, will have concern enough to make him heedless [of others.] )
There is no hell, or heaven, as an atheist I don't harp on such things, there is more
important 'real' things in this life to think about.
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However, guidance is only up to God alone, as in this ayah 10: 101
For you, not for me. You can believe in whatever you want, that is your choice,
not mine, to each his own.
I am a spiritual person in a much different way than you, it doesn't have to be
connected to any god or religion, the god believers don't have the rights of ownership
to that word.
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