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#WritersCoffeeClub 26 Sept: How does your faith feature in your works?
As I'm an atheist, it doesn't. But I'm not an ex-Christian atheist: I'm an ex-Reform Jewish (British subtype) atheist, so my atheism is axiomatically different from yours …
(Hint: if you think the term "Judeo-Christian Values" describes a real thing, you would be wrong—Judaism has no afterlife, no hell, and no Devil, for starters. Then it rapidly gets even more different.)
PS: in my fiction I mock religious fanatics.
@kevin Physical resurrection of the dead *on Earth* is not heaven/hell. (Nor is being remembered in the Book of Life the same thing.)
@cstross that is very similar to what (creedal) Christians believe, that after the last judgment, the resurrected will be given new bodies to live in a new Earth. The Christian afterlife is not disembodied platonic ghosts either. I can’t see how resurrection, bodily or not, is not an afterlife
@cstross
Fun! I'm an ex-Catholic atheist (well, more or less), so I'm currently stuck between being extremely anti-clerical and thinking that maybe the Church had something to recommend it. I've very little love for Rome, but they do very well at keeping a lid on their extremists, and well... honestly, I wish we had the option of just out and excommunicating a lot of people.
But then, my parents were awful enough that going to mass each week and meeting other adults is why I'm at least
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@cstross no afterlife? Maimonides’s 13th article of faith is just that, belief in the resurrection of the dead.