Over the last ten years, I’ve come to cherish my life without god.  I go about my daily tasks with a deep sense that I am alone in the universe, and it makes my life all the richer.

I know it sounds odd, but I have really come to believe that this world is all there is.  Sure, there COULD be a god, there COULD be an afterlife, and there COULD be an esoteric dimension to our corporeal existence. But…

what could that dimension/afterlife/god add to what we have without them?  I mean, what could any of those aspects/things possibly add that we don’t have in life?  For me, I can’t find anything that they add.  I love deeply, respect life, enjoy others, and care for other human beings and all of the above without any reference whatsoever to anything other than my own humanness.

Furthermore, I have come to believe that living this life as it’s the ONLY one, adds so much and provides for a much deeper experience than the converse.  If I KNOW that this world is IT, then I’ll care more and cherish more of the things in the now:  I’ll love what surrounds me and eschew all idealism in favor of the real.

Nietzsche’s concept of AMOR FATI intrigues me for this very reason.  He saw that when we cherish the NOW, the HERE, and don’t look for something beyond it, we are able to live freely and see it more sharply.  We can, in short, truly live if all that surrounds us is of our making and not the making of some malevolent/benevolent god.  We can truly love our lives the more we are accepting of its circumstances.

I, for one, believe that life is better without god.  I love it.  I live it. And, most of all, I own it.

Brett