Thanks for the thought out and intelligent responses. That isn't common in these debates. From both sides. As for me, I've already found peace in that regard. I found it when I stopped worrying about and relying on what "might" be and what would be nice were it true. About what comes after death, if anything. About where we came from. I think it's just wishful thinking. I feel more alive than I ever have and just the thoughts of what might be out there amaze me. I prefer to consider where we are going. I have no problem with people believing in something even if I think it's just wishful thinking, if it gets them through life. In fact, I know someone who "found religion"(not Christianity though). Had he not, he'd likely be in prison for life or even dead. And he knows this and admits it. I think this often seen scenario speaks volumes for the state of mind belief holds people in. It's comparable to addiction. That's another conversation entirely though. The problem is that too often we can't keep these beliefs, which equate to little more than wishful thinking, to ourselves. We perpetuate complacency by doing this. I just think we stand more to gain from letting that go. I wonder how people will look at religious beliefs, which are just ideas on the nature of existence, when we start creating life or even universes. Those are seemingly the only major attributes that we associate with being a god left that we haven't already started doing ourselves even if only in some minuscule capacity.