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''See also:'' [[Atheism and purpose]] and [[Atheism and meaninglessness]] and [[Hopelessness of atheism]] and [[Atheism, agnosticism and pessimism]]

''See also:'' [[Atheism and purpose]] and [[Atheism and meaninglessness]] and [[Hopelessness of atheism]] and [[Atheism, agnosticism and pessimism]]

[[Image:Ncgj688.jpg|right|thumb|[[Jean Paul Sartre]] ]]

[[Image:Ncgj688.jpg|left|thumb|[[Jean Paul Sartre]] ]]

Cameron McAlister of [[Ravi Zacharias]] International Ministries wrote about atheism and death:

Cameron McAlister of [[Ravi Zacharias]] International Ministries wrote about atheism and death:

{{Cquote|What is the chief appeal of atheism? In a word, death. This story begins and ends with nothingness. Carbon-based life is a brief reprieve between two absolute abysses. We have our minute sliver of time on this minute patch of existence, both of which will be swallowed by oblivion in the long run. Seen in this light, suicide—“denying our programming”—is the most potent and naked expression of human free will on display, a great cosmic revolt against the material upheavals that accidentally produced us in the first place.

{{Cquote|What is the chief appeal of atheism? In a word, death. This story begins and ends with nothingness. Carbon-based life is a brief reprieve between two absolute abysses. We have our minute sliver of time on this minute patch of existence, both of which will be swallowed by oblivion in the long run. Seen in this light, suicide—“denying our programming”—is the most potent and naked expression of human free will on display, a great cosmic revolt against the material upheavals that accidentally produced us in the first place.