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This article I wrote back in 1988 and had published in Morgunbladid, Iceland's largest newspaper then, but last year when I tried to have it re-published in the same paper it was rejected because of its radical thinking.
In the morning I had bought me my first typewriter in Stapafell for 5000 kroner, because I thought it by time I bought me one, being a writer of all kinds of articles using my Bic pen.
Where I proudly looked at my latest purchase, before me on the kitchen table in our flat at Hatun in Keflavik, something started bothering my meager head and it was as someone was telling me to put an A 4 in it and start writing.
To my own surprise, being such an atheist, I did just what "The VOICE" was telling me to do.
I swear to the god I donot believe in that this is the truth.
I had never thought or written anything like it, but there it was; black on white.
I mailed it right away and 2 days later it was published in Velvakandi, readers' opinion page.
ENJOY
Olithor Eiriks:
 The Cirquit of Life
"The Circuit of Life".
Won't there be anything after death?
Some believe there isn't, but most "thinking" Icelanders refuse those negative thoughts wholeheartedly.
Our religious countrymen believe that there are many proofs of eternal life for true Christians in the blessedness by God's side in Heaven, wherever it may be located.
Many people believe that there is enough proof in the Holy Bible, which is really just a collection of traditions and folk-stories written a long time after the alleged events.
In the modern era we are no longer dependent on what the church instructs us to do.
The times and habits have gone through dramatic changes since the church-servants could deter people from wandering off the way of living the church preached as the right and only one.
Those who didn't obey were supposed to end down in Hell for eternity, but the others who were righteous and god-fearing went to Heaven.
Alongside with better education, knowledge and last but not least critical thinking, more and more Christians believe that everybody goes to Heaven in the Afterlife, another and better existence, and the all-good God couldn't treat his children differently, just because of some small mistakes in life's roaring sea."'
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