Photo 15 Feb 6 notes A frequent misunderstanding of atheism leads to the question, “If everything is so hopeless, why not just kill yourself?” Albert Camus, the leading light of literary existentialism (although he was violently opposed to that label) himself said: “Il n’y a qu’un problème philosophique vraiment sérieux : c’est le suicide.” This question is usually asked without irony by people whose religion insists that this world is a world of sin and suffering and when they die they will be delivered to an eternal paradise.

A frequent misunderstanding of atheism leads to the question, “If everything is so hopeless, why not just kill yourself?” Albert Camus, the leading light of literary existentialism (although he was violently opposed to that label) himself said: “Il n’y a qu’un problème philosophique vraiment sérieux : c’est le suicide.”

This question is usually asked without irony by people whose religion insists that this world is a world of sin and suffering and when they die they will be delivered to an eternal paradise.

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