@David B.
"Discounting visitors, there are no Christians in the graveyard.
(Because, obviously, the inhabitants of graveyards don't believe in God or anything else, being dead and having no mental processes.)"
Thus the need for their comforting security blankie they call 'faith' in a so-called 'afterlife'. Because they're in denial of the one - terrifying - ultimate truth:
Everything - and everyone - alive dies.
Death - in the form of brain-death via hypoxia, thus ending up cold & rotting in a box - is the great equaliser. No Exceptions. Rich, poor; man, woman; intelligent, stupid; famous, nobody...
... Atheist, Fundie..
>:D
The great truth, nay, the Meaning of Life itself: 'You're born. You die. Between cutting the cord and carking it, you make your life as interesting as possible. And if we can do something that impacts upon humanity positively (helping people in any way or adding to the sum of human knowledge), or at least doing something memorable in an equally positive way, so much the better. And to treat other people the way we'd wish them to treat us. And to not harm others in any way, shape or form. To have RESPECT for everyone. The basis of our morals? Taking Personal Responsibility for our actions. It's called Humanism.'
There. The Meaning Of Life. Simple, eh? Now what gives religions the RIGHT to complicate such a simple philosophy with the fairytales, guilt, dogma and overall bullshit in the way they do?
(emphasis added):
'There is no Fate but what we make for ourselves'
-Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) "Terminator II: Judgement Day"