religion is what it is in the end. but in the beginning, there were thousands of them. it can be argued that they have just evolved to what we have today. and after thousands of years more, all of the religions of today will vanish just like those of yestercenturies and millenia.

many people have a hard time confronting the possibility that there may not be a heaven or an afterlife. we can believe what we want and we can make that belief into a reality for ourselves.