Do you have fear of going to hell?

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Actually the agnostics (real atheists do not exist) should be the ones who need to be afraid of not being correct. Famous wager by our old pal Pascal. If Christians are wrong they lose an immoral life. If the the agnostics are wrong they go to hell..lol. Smart money is on the Christians in other words.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager

False.

That's blatantly false. You have no way of knowing which, if any, religion is correct. The Vikings could have had it right every bit as easily as the christians.

Once a man was in a very bad car accident.When he started to come to he thought he might be dead,but he realized he was hungry,he thought". I can't be in Heaven because no one is ever hungry there."Then he worried he was in Hell,but then he thought"My feet are cold,they sure wouldn't be cold in Hell."

Just a weird little joke.

This used to scare the s**t out of me when I was younger. Then at some point I decided I couldn't accept such a crazy disproportionate punishment.

Now by gradual degrees I'm moving toward Atheism.

The cessation of my existence doesn't worry me in the least. Similarly I don't feel inconvenienced by the fact I didn't exist for several billion years before my birth.

" When I think of the number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a better world,I am sure hell won't be so bad after all".

Mark Twain

My favorite.

"Hell is other people".

Jean-Paul Sartre

They get a hard time over many beliefs but the mormon model of the afterlife seems the fairest.

Instead of just heaven and hell, there are actually 4 different levels of reward and punishment. To put that into perspective, the third from highest is equivalent to being alive on Earth with the lowest level being 'hell'. Which makes more sense, how and where do you draw the line between deserving of eternal suffering and deserving of eternal paradise?

Who says the Christians have the right model?

Maybe the Muslims or Jews do?

Hey maybe the Hindus or Sikhs do?

Perhaps the buddhists should worry, theirs is the only religion which demands no belief in an actual 'god'.

There are Dieties in Buddhism but they are symbolic of aspects of your mind .

Why would I care if I wouldn't be remembered? And if there's nothing after I die?

I'd be dead. I wouldn't have the capacity,

That's actually very close to the stoic concept--that we all simply return to the logos, the divine fire that orders the universe.

Personally, I'm with Marcus Aurelius on death:
"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh."

Sounds nice to me.

No. I don't fear imaginary places.

I guess I don't quite understand your reasoning, though that might be partly because of the concept of Hell I believed in for a long time. Personally, I would prefer to one day die and have no after life, than to be sent to the Biblical Hell and be tortured with fire forever.

I did have a fear of Hell at one time though, but luckily that fear has faded. It's not easy to get rid of the irrational fear of Hell when you are an ex-Christian like me. It just took time for my irrational fear of Hell to fade.

Inner fears are hell.

I'm an atheist, so, no.