People are often so afraid to face the reality of the inevitable, that in the process of desperately attempting to save their souls, they are oblivious to the fact that they lose their hearts. Religion is all about self-preservation. No matter what unkindness, hatefulness, deviousness, or spite, lurks within their own natures, people of religion arrogantly assume that they will be excused their failings, and yet are content to predict, and to accept without criticism of the principle, that others in possession of genuinely good qualities will be damned to the fires of hell supposedly created by a God that very clearly falls far short of perfection, simply because they don�t worship him. How any truly just man can happily accept, and justify, such an evil scheme is beyond comprehension.
If there is a God it isn�t the God the Bible or the Koran talk about - his many shortcomings are all too human - and faith in him is misplaced. Those who are capable of admitting their own mortality are quite aware that the most important thing in life is the way they live their lives, and they know that kindness and humanity are paramount. There is no plan for life, and there is no purpose to life, except to ensure the survival of the species. In that, human beings are no different to any other creature that nature has created.