As an atheist, people have asked me many times, “could you tell someone whose loved one just died, that there is no afterlife?” to which I have always answered with another question: “could you tell someone that is planning to kill himself, that after this life there is a paradise waiting for us?”
Being an atheist is hard most of the time, unless you are very lucky and live in a country where people genuinely don’t care. And even in those countries people tend to have a bias against atheists.
We have been called bullies for defying religion while in fact they are the ones condemning us to eternal suffering no matter how good we do to the world.
Just being an atheist can get you killed in some countries, being an atheist makes it way harder for someone to win an election in the united states (a secular nation) and even in some states books there is still written down that atheist can’t run for office.
Atheist have been called terrorists, immoral, murderers, etc., for no reason more than our lack of believe in a supernatural being.
I was called immoral and a corrupt person trying to escape judgment by my own uncle before I was practically forced to come out as an atheist.
What I’m trying to say is that… I know is hard, harder that any theist could ever understand, and sometimes you feel alone, and you wish there would be some supreme being that cared about your wellbeing, but there isn’t, and you still have to deal with your life.
Being an atheist is already hard as it is, and is even harder for people like me, that suffer from depression, and sometimes I just want to give up, but I don’t. cause the will to live doesn’t come from having an objective meaning in life, and it certainly doesn’t come from an unhealthy relationship with a supreme being, it comes from inside us.
We are animals, we all have that will to live, we just have to find it. you don’t necessarily need a purpose, or a meaning, or a god, no one needs any of that. It may vary from individual to individual, but our will to live comes from inside us, and happiness doesn’t come from knowing there is a paradise waiting for us, it comes from internal peace, from being good with yourself, with who you are.