Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

by Dan Barker

We atheists believe in life before death. Before we were born, there was a very long time, perhaps an eternity, when we did not exist, and it did not bother us one bit. The same will be true after we are dead. What matters is that we are alive now. These living, breathing, hurting, singing, laughing bodies are worth something, for their own sake. Since there is no life after death—how could there be when the body and the brain decay?—we have to make the most of it now, before it is too late.