and even in the best-case scenario? wherein I somehow pass an Arbitrary Morality Test I didn’t sign up for and get accepted into some sort of magical Heaven or whatever? well. without the memories and experiences that shaped me, would I even still technically exist as a version of myself I could identify? reincarnation aside, let’s bear in mind there’s no actual evidence there’s even a so-called ‘afterlife’ waiting on the other side–for all we know, my consciousness will just dissolve into nonexistence. enormously risky, given the low quality of life many people experience, and that’s setting aside philosophical issues of identity, e.g. slightly better-case scenario, it’s a reincarnation-based afterlife, which means I end up having to do the whole Existence thing all over again, which frankly seems like a huge roll of the dice. worst-case scenario, the afterlife is real and I get cast into some version of Hell for being a nonbeliever. “yeah sure I could ‘go into the light’ as you so eloquently put it, but let’s be analytical about this. They only respond to ouija board summonings in order to lecture people for participating in non-evidence-based belief systemsĮxorcisms dont work cause they dont believe in them. they refuse to move on to the afterlife on the grounds that the afterlife does not and should not exist