I am answering the two questions about the after life:
The time that people was much concerned about the after life, is far away today. I am a human (more exactly a vampire) of 72 years of age. At my fourteen I was very interested in religion and turned from Catholicism to Protestantism, received with open arms among the Evangelicals. And, even at that time I no longer believed in hell-fire, even less in purgatory, and about heaven or paradise, I even did not think about at the time, though I quoted more than often John 3:16. I just enjoyed the “today”, at church, not at home because there I was persecuted. In 1998, things turned out differently in my life studying Carl Gustav Jung. The after-life is the collective consciousness with its archetypes, as nothing is lost.
There is nothing after death, only the memory of what we were in the many pasts, and even will be in the future, the open book of good and bad as found in Revelation (Bible).
The second question. People do not take time to think, they just like to be led (guided) blindly, and believe what religious (more often corrupt leaders say) without thinking for themselves. The Bible can be interpreted in many, many ways. It was never meant to become one book, it is just a collection not interrelated. The 27 books of the NT were chosen, and all other rejected and burned, re-discovered in 1945 in Egypt.
Why bother about religion. Your are religion, you are another god. Your brain works in a fantastic way. All started in the brain, also the God theology, your computer, your gsm, etc. Man is another god, and there is no other. There is no other way but your own.
