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Because life without afterlife is awfully pointless.

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Please elaborate.

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Otiose, senseless, purposeless. Anything that I do that contains any purpose (including such things as investing, studying, working out) is done in context of the future.

Would you go to work on Monday if you knew you were not going to get a paycheck on Friday? Would you make personal plans for a month from now if you knew you were going to die tomorrow?

I a) try to do the right things, and b) drink a cup of wine and eat a loaf of bread the first Sunday of each month in preparation for my inevitable death, hopefully many decades from now.

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I think your point confirms the atheistic point of view of why religion is a crutch. You're arguing that without a point, everyone should basically off themselves. And I'd agree that many people would do just that without religion. Which is why, from the atheist's view, religion is, to a degree, necessary yet untrue.