Thread by @TariqElhaad

🧵 Many Muslims often attempt to warn me and many of my atheist friends of the inevitable death.

So what is going to happen to me as an ExMuslim atheist after I die? Let's discuss... 1/10
#Atheism #Life #Heaven #Hell #Islam

All living things eventually die. So I am not so sure what is so earth-shatteringly scary about death. Yes, nobody wants to die and everyone wants to prolong their lives (including animals) but living life under a constant fear of death is not how I want to live my life. 2/10

The key message of Abrahamic religions is to scare people about death, when nobody factually knows what happens after death, if anything at all. Fear of the unknown is quite natural but some of us do not want to spend the rest of our lives living under that constant fear. 3/10

Death is so inevitable that it shouldn't define the purpose of one's life, to the extent that they make every decision of their lives based on assumptions, gambling on some 7th century folklores about an imagined wonderland after death. 4/10

You want to gamble away your life for a chance of an imagined afterlife? Go ahead! If you really wish to live your life like that, good for you; it's your life. Nobody should stop you. But it really shouldn't be your business telling others how to live theirs. 5/10

The notion that a heaven full of milk, honey, alcohol and women in tents awaits us is quite laughable. Your Allah fails to mention even a sentence about what reward he would give to women in their Jannah. That is because this heaven is nothing but the concoction of men. 6/10

Your idea of eternal damnation or hell doesn't scare me. I know it may be hard to believe because you live under a constant fear of this hell and cannot imagine how someone might not feel the same fear that you do, but it really does not scare me. 7/10

There are many ideas given by many philosophers about the meaning and purpose of life and what (if anything) happens after death. Some of them argue that life may be cycle of rebirths. Other nihilistic philosophies present a very different view. 8/10

Your close-mindedness shuts you off and makes you unreceptive to any new ideas because you blindly believe, without any proof, that yours is the only truth, worthy of gambling away your entire life over it. What if YOU are wrong? 9/10

It is your faith that your specific god, Allah, the creator of Jannah and Johannam, exists. Your faith doesn't make these ideas more real than other competing ideas about the purpose of life. Even if this monster named Allah was real, I would still reject him on principle. 10/10