Q2: Aren't you afraid of going to hell?

Patrick Julius answers: Not at all, really. No more than I am afraid of going to Hades instead of Elysium, or of being reincarnated as a cockroach instead of a Bodhisattva, or of ending up in Mordor instead of Valinor. You can't be afraid of something you don't believe in. I know it's hard for many believers to accept, but atheists actually don't believe in religion. We don't think it's true, or even plausible.

Posted November 8, 2007. Patrick is the president of the Secular Student Alliance at the University of Michigan.