Sunday Sermonette: On Tidy Endings

[bill_sheehan]

I’ve been thinking a lot about death lately. This Sermonette is cross-posted; many of my friends know that my mother-in-law passed away recently. Her death has raised questions, both in my own mind and from my friends. What do atheists believe about death? How do we handle grief? How does life have meaning without a final judgement or an

Comments

[cvirtue]

Some religions are well suited to encourage people to endure a terrible present situation, in hopes of riches in the next. This seems to be cruel in the extreme.

[liddle_oldman]

I believe that we are an emergent property of the meat -- "Mind is what a brain does" is a nice way of putting it.

I also believe that life and the universe have no meaning -- save that meaning that we give it. We needn't wait, passively, to be given our mission; we can be agents in the cosmos.