Good, Evil, Life, Death

[Unbeliever]

Why is it that almost every human culture yet discovered has found it necessary to believe in an afterlife of some sort, but not a 'before-life?' Why are there so many versions of Heaven, Paradise and The Great Beyond, but almost none about The Great Before?

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without concience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Natural science has outstripped moral and political science. That is too bad; but it is a fact, and the fact does not disappear because we close our eyes to it.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

The means by which we live has outstripped the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos for which it is used.

It is time that science, having destroyed the religious basis for morality, accepted the obligation to provide a new and rational basis for human behavior - a code of ethics concerned with man's needs on earth, not his rewards in heaven.

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

[Science]...gives us no answer to our question, what shall we do and how shall we live?

All I ask of Thee, Lord; is to be a drinker and a fornicator; an unbeliever and a sodomite; and then to die.

Unbeliever

People say god is almighty
and god is great
but I know he's just a fake.
Don't live in a lie
because you are afraid to die
but pull your self togeteher
and when it's your time
you will say goodbye, forever