Most of my close ones know I am not religious. The word atheist is an oxymoron, that is not what I claim to be. Secular humanism is probably closer to reality, although in my opinion there is no reality. Everything is just a shadow of something else that we are either not allowed to know or just plain stupid and we cannot see it.
Although we look older as we age, we do not always feel older. As we age, we inevitably get closer to death, and it is natural to question the point of life. Why live when we inevitably die? Of course, the Christian has an answer to this. We believe that when we die we will be with God and live on in a new resurrection body. Because we have repented (said sorry to God) of our sins - our moral and attitude mistakes - and because we have lived to please God, we can have faith that we will experience a reward for being obedient. For example, Matthew 25:23 says, “...you have been faithful...come and share your Master’s happiness”.Before "Criminal Minds (TV program)" gained some popularity, the concept of Behavioural Analysis -- in my case goes back to "Artificial Intelligence", B.F. Skinner, around the early 80's.
Yet, if I look at the changes in my loved ones, I see it more and more -- that is, an attempt to get closer to G*d. This starts confirming findings from Skinner, Beer, Clark and many more.
There is absolutely no criticism, you have to do what you think you have to do. I just do not agree with it.
Souces:
http://www.walking-wounded.net/html/christians__age_and_death.html
http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/aupr/ba.shtml
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