Christians and Muslims fear death more than humanists and atheists!! Whodathunk it? The presenter of bbc r4 religious programme was gobsmacked at this amazing finding. Apparently its the muslims who fear death most of all.
The atheists on the other hand could care less and are totally relaxed with the plain fact that when we die that is it, kaput, finito, nothingness, the end. No heavenly choirs or satanic hellfire. Remaining conscious and fully rational to the end the atheist can objectively observe the fact that life is coming to an end -in a sense it is not they who are dying but the world effectively.
No wondering, will I make the grade, have I made enough sacrifices, have I abased myself before God sufficiently, said enough hail Mary's or God is great muslim mumbo jumbo, have I studied the torah with sufficient zeal and humility, given enough alms, not lusted too much ad nauseam. Penitent flagellation -was there enough of it?
It is fitting that muslims should fear death most of all as they are the guiltiest of them all having wasted their whole life on the nonsense of their faith. I for one am quite happy to find that they are tormented in their last days - it's reality kicking them in the teeth if they did but know it which of course they don't mistakenly thinking that fear of Allah's judgement is what is causing them fear.
It would be good if the bbc dropped all its religious broadcasting but I suppose it does do a valuable service of reminding us how stupid religious people are and the consequences of abandoning reason to faith.
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