Well I don't believe in God or an afterlife or any of that stuff.
The image of God that is portrayed by some religions, an all-knowing diety of everlasting mercy the transcends space and time, just seems too unrealistic to me. People call coincidences 'interventions', and claim that everything positive you do in the world is driven by "god".
Plus, there's the whole thing about the creation. One of us, "god" or life , had to be created first (and if life was created first, there wouldn't really be a need for a "god"). People seem to think that it's reasonable for "god" to pop out of nothingness and create us from the goodness of its heart, but it's completely blasphemous to tihnk that if "god" could appear from nothingness, so could single celled organisms that evolved into more advanced creatures based on their surroundings.
I've yet to see any form of intervention by "god" that is not a coincidence or just some sort of rarity. There's no proof of his "acts", the bible has been edited hundreds of times over, and a King once re-wrote it to suit his image, effectivelly bending the religion to become a new one that wasn't really based on all the facts.
As for the afterlife, some people think that their body will perish but their mind or "spirit" will live on in the afterlife. What do you think your mind depends on for thought? Your body. Physical harm in the physical world can damage your brain and mind, so are you saying that if someone hit their head in the physical world and gained a mental disability, they would carry that on into the eternal afterlife? I'd think not. All of your memories, your thoughts, your entire personality is based on unique chemicals and chemical reactions taking place in your brain. When you die and these functions cease, your memories, your personality, everything that is you fades away into nothingness. It's not as if your "spirit" "escapes your body and sails to the heavens" or any crap like that, you die, you decompose, and your thoughts and emotions cease.
All that religion does is fill people with false hope, not that that's a bad thing. If they believe it, at least they'll try to do good things while they're alive so that they can think that they'll head off to some utopia once they die.
Sorry to say, even if there was a utopia, one of two things would happen: Either the "criteria" for getting in would be loose and more people would get in, creating the same problems here in the physical realm such as prejudice and crap like that, and if the "criteria" was very strict, no one would be allowed in.
That is, unless there was a personal utopia, in which case you'd eventually go insane due to the concept of eternity. No one can stay sane for all of time, you'd eventually do everything there is to do, and once that time came, you'd probably go crazy from boredom...
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Ok I'm done now.