Foolish, Wishful Theistic Fantasies

Theists love to troop out the "no atheists in foxholes" falsehood as though it provides an iota of veracity, and—here's the wishful point—as though projecting inculcated fear demonstrates that atheists will revert to a brainwashed childhood state and run 'home' to Sky Daddy at the first sign of threat.

Neither is accurate.

Instead, the purported "truism" makes theists appear both desperate and incapable of logical understanding of the ramifications of seeing past manipulative fantasies and realizing that death is nothingness. The same nothingness of which all humans were unaware—for billions of years—before the consciousness-conferring assembly of personalized neural molecules.

Atheists have no fear of a celestial judgment and consignment to a fiery hell---or, rather worse, an eternity of boredom with sycophants genuflecting to an imaginary Daddy. Yes, a sane person in a foxhole—or a cancer clinic—would have reason to fear enduring a painful ending. But why fear death itself?

Death is nothing. No heaven. No hell. No celestial judgement. Nothing.

“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.” ~ Epicurus