text: if life everafter is taken out of religious ideology,what happens to amount of believers?   its hard to tell. its a belief of mine that many people only believe because they're afraid that once their gone, their gone. religion is a way to become immortal. kind of sad, really. i believe because i want to believe, and i don't believe in any after life. technology, science, religion-they're all ways to become immortal! humans, as a species, are afraid of death and being forgotten. myself included.