Write me into the "no afterlife" category. I'd rather just not exist than be alive for eternity. It seems pointless to me, and the assumption that I'm immortal greatly cheapens my life as it is now. I think that my life is short and I have to make the most of it while I can. If I'm immortal, why bother doing anything interesting? I'll literally have all the time in the world to do it later.
I don't like the idea of Heaven. Apparently I'll die and then enjoy eternal bliss, and maybe be God's yes man forever. Why should I be granted eternal bliss when there is so much pain and misery on Earth? It seems pointless and selfish to me. Instead of keeping me alive in Heaven forever, it makes more sense to reincarnate me on Earth so that I can take a stab at improving things, or just kill me off and be done with it.
If Hell exists as it is often described to me, then God is the most evil, sadistic being that could possibly exist. If I go to Heaven, I am supposed to serve God forever, according to some schools of thought. The problem with that, in my mind, is that this is the same god who created an unimaginably horrible place solely to punish people for committing a bunch of arbitrarily defined sins. Hell seems more like something people invented just to control each other, rather than the work of a benevolent diety. I don't think that something that is supposedly more intelligent than humans would see a need for Hell. Why does he keep making humans, just so they can live a century at most and then be tortured for unimaginable lengths of time? He should at least make us stop reproducing if so many people are simply produced for God to give up on and then send off to suffer in Hell forever. If there is some problem with my thinking, the only other possibility I can see is that God gets off on the pain of others. He allows our population to burgeon exponentially, to fuel a machine that lets him torture more people today than he did yesterday. What is the point of that, other than God's own sick amusement? I want no part of either Heaven or Hell as they have been described to me. One place requires its inhabitants to be absurdly selfish while they condone the torture of billions of people in the other.
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