Religion declares that it can offer eternal life after death; something which never has, nor ever can be proved. A verse in the Bible says, "For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath and humans have no advantage over the animals; all go to the one place; all are from the dust and all turn to dust again". (Ecclesiastes 3:19) and again in (Ecclesiastes 9:5.) "The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing they have no more reward and even the memory of them is lost. Their love and their hate and their envy is already perished; never again will they have any share in all that happens under the sun." It does not seem that Ecclesiastes believed in another life after death.

The Christian belief in life after death and the judgment seat of God necessitates that the memory of this lifetime be carried forward to the afterlife where, it is said by Christians, we all will stand before the judgment seat of God. Rational people will agree that the human brain is the storehouse of all our knowledge, attitudes, emotions and beliefs. We die like all other living things. There are no exceptions. When we die, our mortal mental repository with its vast records of experience, knowledge, beliefs and memories must be lost and decay with the rest of our mortal bodies. There is no alternative. The gods, Heaven, Hell and good and bad spirits are myths created out of the ignorance and fear of our ancient ancestors. Today there is no reason to believe the ancient mythologies.