I'm a former staunch Christian who now is agnostic.

[Mr.Bill]

17. I am an Atheist, have been one since I was a child.

My perspective on an afterlife is not an afterlife I will live, rather it is one others will live that will be hopefully enhanced by having known me. I try to be at my best with my family and other human beings and maybe have some good influence on them so that one day when I am gone they will maybe see something the way I would and react like I would. In that way I will live on even though I won't be there in a physical sense.

I think we all have known someone who influences us long after they have left this earth. Whether it be a family member, a teacher, a good friend or even someone we have never met but have read about or studied.


In this way we can all be somewhat of a superior being in some small way to others for generations to come. It comes with a responsibility to live the best life we can, treat others well and know that every act we perform can for outlive us through people we will never even meet.

And isn't that what Jesus did? I believe that the Christian Jesus is a composite if not mythical person. Every religion has it superior beings that their followers are supposed to emulate. I have those beings without the trappings and faults of organized religion, and if I live right, I can be in some small way one of those beings to others.