Death and Atheism

Each and every one of us will, sooner or later, die and die not partially, but totally. Entirely. This is so obvious unless of course we can enjoy partial insanity. The human body, after death, is a mass, incapable of producing any movements the union of which constitutes life. We longer see circulation, respiration, digestion, or reflection. Even the greatest joy – the joy of understanding is no longer possible after the brain disintegrates after death. Sex, the next greatest joy is also no longer possible. As a matter of fact, there is no such thing as immortality unless immortality will be the condition of a dead moron who can believe that he is not yet dead, buried, and gone! Now we told that after death, the soul separates itself from the body. Indeed, the theologians insist on this truth despite the subject of theology is the study of nothing reduced to a system. But to admit that the soul, which is unknown, is the principle of life, is admitting nothing, unless of course that an unknown force is the invisible principle of imperceptible movements. However, nothing is more natural and simpler than to believe that after death, we live no longer; and nothing more absurd than to believe that after we are dead but we are still living somehow and somewhere in a realm beyond. We think it silly for some nations whose fashion it is to bury provisions with the dead – food to eat as might be nutritious for them in the next life. But it is ridiculous to believe that we can still eat after death or that we can still think; that we can hold agreeable or disagreeable ideas; that we shall still have the capacity to enjoy, to suffer, or still be in possession of our knees to kneel down in prayers when our bodies are turned into dust. To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after dearth of the body is to pretend that we will still be able to see without eyes, to hear with ears, to taste without our palate, to smell without our nose, to feel without our hands and without our skin. Nations, such as the Philippines, believe herself very rational, have adopted as true such infantile nonsense. Life after death? Why not attend to the more important part of life - life after birth. Indeed, if there be a purpose to life, that purpose must be to leave this world a little better than we found it, or there is little reason for our having lived. Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Google#