[chotadipo]

As much as religion plays an important part in our lives, the promise of life after death is really debatable. For arguments sake, a contributor pointed to the 'where' you will spend that after life as opposed to the life itself as the determining factor. Now this where is described in various forms and in various places in most holy books as either spending time in heaven with God and his angels singing praises or in hell with Satan burning in brimestone...c'mon either way doesn't wow me, especially now that I know I have a confirmed worst singing voice and my parents said I had the worst cry when I was young. I could get booted from either place.

Another thing, methinks we are assuming too much. Just because we shape the world to suit our reasoning does not in any way guarantee that we have will while all other things cannot figure how they exist. A common argument I subscribe to is, if an alien came to earth and sees us as say plants, then what? Trees whisper everyday, do we care? The Alien may just hear earth noises and goes about his life completely oblivious of what we think of him.

I belive man is capable of doing good wihtout being hostage to the after-life theory. The notion that you must embrace the bible to be able to come out of your 'savagness' is nonesensical to me.