Not my words, but true nonetheless. More than one would expect from Flickr comments on a photo called “Atheist Headstone”.

The believer tells himself that he is going somewhere special because he is not strong enough to face the truth that he is just decomposing into the same earth as millions of humans before him.

The atheist lives his life knowing that each day is the most important of his life, and that every word and action is critically important because this is the only chance he gets to live well and leave the world better than when he came into it.

The believer lives each day pretending that he is forgiven all his selfish and perverted acts, and deceives himself that he will be going to disneyland when he dies so nothing in this life is important.