# CC: This isn't really a pitting, but since it's personal...

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**Created:** [December 3, 2010, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cc-this-isnt-really-a-pitting-but-since-its-personal/562768 "2010-12-03T05:02:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cc-this-isnt-really-a-pitting-but-since-its-personal/562768/12 "2010-12-03T14:02:33Z")

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> [@Steophan](#):
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> As a point of fact, there _is_ no afterlife. Also, there is no Santa Claus, and those banner adverts won’t show you how to Get Rich Quick!!! Sorry to shatter anyone’s illusions, but, you know, fighting ignorance and all that.

I’m an atheist and my feeling is: an afterlife is extremely fucking unlikely and there is no evidence whatsoever to back one up - not to mention that many major religions disagree on its nature or if it even exists - but I cannot definitively declare there isn’t one.

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