Our substitute teacher asked if I had Jesus in my heart...

[The River]

5. Not Ignorant

just fearful that their ego will not continue in time. It's the most primitive fear there is. Almost as soon as human consciousness became aware of linear time with a past, a present and a future, they also realized that their individual consciousness, their ego, would not continue to exist "in time". They promptly began constructing an "afterlife" in which their ego would continue to exist.

Religion is an evolutionary response to the "death terror". We will out grow that fear "in time" and come to realize that "I" have always existed outside of and prior to time even if our ego does not.

Your second paragraph is spot on.