Reply #58: I wasn't around in some "pre-life" for the billions of years before I was born

[stopbush]

and I won't be going to some "after-life" for billions of years once I croak.

All biological life forms die. No one imagines that trees and animals have an afterlife. Why would our species be any different?

What about Neanderthal? Did he go to an afterlife? Homo erectus - any afterlife for him? Is the afterlife reserved only for homo sapiens? Is it further reserved only for those homo sapiens who believe in god? Is it further reserved only for those homo sapiens who believe in the CORRECT god? Is it further reserved only for those homo sapiens who believe in the correct god AND worship him in the proper way while on this Earth? Is it further reserved only to those homo sapiens who believe in god, worship him properly while on Earth and belong to the one Christian sect that gets it "right" out of the 30,000+ Christian sects that infest the world?

Sounds like bullshit to me. Sounds like something we made up during the infancy of our species' existence to explain things that were terrifying to us. Sounds like wishful thinking coupled with fear and guilt to me. Sounds like abject stupidity raised to the level of "truth" simply because it's been hanging around forever. Sounds like something our species would be better off chucking out all together.