Why is the Afterworld, as described my most religions, so different from the Real World?
1 - RW-Here Life is not easy. No one gives us anything, nothing is Free
H-Heaven is Given to the Favored, like in Corrupt, Dictator-led countries. Life is easy, everything is free!
2 - RW-Here we WORK for a living - to put food on the table, a roof over our heads, we PAY for what we eat, where we live. Once we become Adults, we are expected to stand on our own two feet, face the world on our own. And this law is not just for us but for ALL creatures on earth. In fact, we humans have it better than all other creatures on earth. Most animals get but a few months, maybe a year before the parents push them out of the nest, never to see them again
H-No one mentions any work being done in Heaven, no one even asks!
Everyone, it seems, expects God to be some sort of a Sugar Daddy & keep them in cozy comfort for eternity! They just get to sit and enjoy the good life shamelessly sponging off God!
Every time i have asked - “What does one DO in Heaven? DETAILS, please” - theists run away!
It is the asking for Details that gets them, they have no clue, but that IS how Fantasies, Ponzi-Schemes work
3 - RW-Here we EARN what we desire, obtain - at least are expected to. We see videos of people, for example sports stars, proudly pointing to their trophies, their medals and saying, “Nothing was given to us, we Earned it!”
In the free world that we are fortunate to live in, it is a case of What-you-know, not Whom-you-know that is important
H-But Heaven cannot be Earned, the only way in is to kiss the right butt, polish the right shoes.
Heaven as we know is GIVEN to the Favored! Atheists, Hindus, Buddhists are threatened with dire consequences, eternal torture in Hell because well, we are not kissing the right butt! Not polishing the right shoes
Heaven is the opposite of real life - Whom-you-know is more important than What-you-know
I lied, it is not the opposite of real life, but the opposite of a morality based, ethical society that we all aspire to live in - in Corrupt, Dictator-led countries, Whom-you-know is the way to go, get ahead
4 - RW-Here saying, “You got that Job or promotion not because of your qualifications, but because of your Relationship with the boss, the boss took a “liking” to you” - is an insult, fists will fly
H-But getting to Heaven is a matter of having the “right” Relationship - Works don’t matter
What we perceive as an insult, the wrong way to do things is the NORM in Religion
5 - RW-ALL of us, esp. Minorities (I am one myself), want to live in INCLUSIVE societies. We want to be judged based on who we are as human beings and not for our skin color, gender, age, ethnicity or religion
H-But Heaven is EXCLUSIVE, SEGREGATED by Religion! People judged, not for the human beings they are, but for their beliefs, religion, or their lack of them