# What’s the worst thing about being an atheist?

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**Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-worst-thing-about-being-an-atheist/983166/107 "2023-04-25T21:36:59Z")

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> [@Tibby](#):
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> Actually I am banking on living again after I die, but God won’t be part of the equation, just physics.
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> If the universe is infinite in time and space, somewhere, sometime, an exact replication of my sub-atomic particles will pop back into existence (perhaps due to a vacuum fluctuation) and I will live again…maybe many times.

I love to hear a Tegmark fan!

But, you’re not going to experience this. You’re just going where the candle flames go when you blow the candles out. How do you bank on a replica if you don’t get to be that replica? It’s not like they’re good for anything else to you.

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