Religion

So, I'm never surprised when people don't question religion or other beliefs. For some people, apparently, questioning things is a natural state. I'm one of those. It's difficult for me to accept anything that lacks evidence of being correct. I will gladly examine evidence that is presented and compare it with other evidence. For the existence of deities, however, there is no evidence, nor any possibility of there being evidence.

For many who are religious, the lack of that evidence is taken as a point of pride. They respond to requests for evidence with the word "faith." There's even a Bible verse about "faith being the evidence of things unseen..."

It became clear to me very early that faith is nothing but the ability to believe nonsense. Things that are real have evidence of being real. So, it became impossible for me to believe that anything supernatural, including deities, exists. So, I don't believe. It's quite simple.

Death is simply completion of a process. Human life begins with the joining of cells from two individuals. The cycle begins with the multiplication of those cells into the organism that is a human being. Once that human being reaches maturity, the process begins to deteriorate and the production of new cells exists only for replacement purposes. Eventually, that repair process fails or gets out of whack and produces mistakes, as in cancers. There is a limit to the process, leading to the death of that particular organism. The method for the continuation of life is the passing of genetic coding on by creating a new organism in cooperation with another human being.

It's very simple. For some human beings, life continues to the point that the organism breaks down but does not die. I have known many old people who not only do not fear death, but welcome it, since they are no longer able to function properly. I have reached the age of 73 years. My parents are still alive at 94 years of age. Neither is religious in any way, and they have reached that final stage of life. They are not pleased with their current inability to function, and are far from being fearful about death. We talk about this frequently.