{"id":3335,"date":"2017-05-24T03:44:34","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T10:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2017-05-24T03:44:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T10:44:34","slug":"if-questions-came-by-instant-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3335","title":{"rendered":"If Questions Came By Instant Messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from Rachael:<\/strong><br \/>\nok i guess i don\u2019t understand how a person can be atheist i mean how can u go through the world knowing that ur going to hell even if u don\u2019t want to believe it<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nSorry it took so long to get to these next four, but they were incorrectly submitted in the comments of the question submission page instead of using the form, and I&#8217;ve worked through the correct submissions first.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s quite simple Rachael.  If you actually don&#8217;t believe in God, you usually don&#8217;t believe there&#8217;s a Heaven or a Hell either.  Removing the existence of God from your worldview doesn&#8217;t just leave a Christian worldview with a God-shaped hole cut out of it.  The whole afterlife mythology goes out the window (possibly after a long period of &#8220;faithdrawal&#8221;), and you&#8217;re left with one life to live as best you can.  So you do that, often with a great deal <em>less<\/em> fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from Rachael: ok i guess i don\u2019t understand how a person can be atheist i mean how can u go through the world knowing that ur going to hell even if u don\u2019t want to believe it Answer by SmartLX: Sorry it took so long to get to these next four, but they were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3335\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If Questions Came By Instant Messaging&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[563],"tags":[26,255],"class_list":["post-3335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-2","tag-atheism","tag-fear"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-RN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3337,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}