for a laugh.
God and associated religions that follow god are a great invention;
We've accomplished so much as a race thanks to religion, most of the wonders of the world i think fall into this category with some being achieved by governments instead (a similar religion, governed by ethics/morals/laws).
Religion is the source of both saintly and evil. I for one find discrepancies in religious texts rather funny, for instance;
Adam and Eve's kids practiced incest(or did Bob and Jane's kids come along), and yet that's fine.
This ridicule leads to bullying and persecution, eventually spiralling into wars - as per history.
Alot of religion is good, and it seems in today's world most of the practiced ones are maintaining transquilty with the others. But for me the existance of more than one religion, undermines all religion. When i'm asked to choose a religion (hypothetically) i opt for the aborgines religion, since they've been practising that for 40,000 years, subsequentally being the oldest.
I too am an aethiest and tend to not contribute to religious-esque topics. Whilst i believe in the notion of the big bang to express this universe, i do have a unexplainable gut feeling that super-string theory is wrong, even with it's relatively new findings.
It's random chance that we're here, but a relatively good chance when the variables are infinite.
The way in which your brain works is who you are, when your brain dies, u die. There is a time delay, since one can die and be jolted back into existence, much to do with how the brain is linked. When teleportation is patented i might change my opinion, but for the time being teleportation would be descruction of matter to be digitalised. I can't see the same person coming out the other side even if they appear normal.
If we had a spirit and this 'spirit' went back to earth to be re-used, what happens if your living it up on another planet, or in space?