Retraction

I would like to retract a statement that I made in an earlier post about Christianity's worship of a crucified dead person being somehow "unusual". Worship of dead people or people who have been martyred is actually incredibly common among the world's religions. In fact, I can't think of a single religion that doesn't somehow deal with the dead in the manner of their presence in a type of afterlife. So I was dead wrong. I think my rather annoyed language at the time may have been misinterperated as intolerant slander of the faith. Truth to be told, I actually have an ironically good knowledge of Christian (specifically Catholic) beliefs. Their belief in afterlife and death is only one reason why I don't adhere to this or any other spiritual doctrine. I believe that when you die, you're dead, and there isn't anything more. Yourself and everything about you then proceeds to decay into a simpler arrangement according to fundamental physical laws which we may or may not have yet discovered. Christianity generally believes in two distinct regions which the spirit may proceed into after death. The lower, hell, is where the spirit experiences "eternal damnation". The upper, heaven, is an unimaginable paradise. The entrance to either of these regions is subject to the deity's just judgement which is based on the quality of the person's actions through the duration of their life. There are other lesser regions of the afterlife such as purgatory which serve other purposes. There are also a great number of intricacies relating to these afterlives which I shall not delve into here. I do not believe in any of this, therefore I am not a Christian. In fact, my total lack of spiritual beliefs easily classifies me as an atheist. Although I believe that all people with religious beliefs are incorrect in their views, the fact remains that it is impossible for me to prove my beliefs on the universe any better than they can prove theirs and therefore there is no point in trying to argue. Therefore my respect in people has no bearing on which philosophical doctrine they subscribe to. I believe that in my previous post I was mixing my own personal reasons for nonspiritualism with fact, and the result was false fact.