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Because life without afterlife is awfully pointless.

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Why are you so sure life has a point? Nothing about it makes much sense. Look at one aspect of it: the self. There is rationality and there is irrationality. All religion focuses only on the former and ignores the latter or calls it "evil." But why would God give us this "evil" aspect? Why the desires for power and sex, greed and lust, and all these other unspeakables which never cease bubbling inside of us? This is man, honestly. If we are made in the image of God, what kind of monster must God be? Our rationality is by no means our foremost means of action. We act in ways that make no sense, and so does the world. That's why trying to make sense of it never amounts to a sensible answer. I'm not asking you to like it, just to accept it.