The most real and thus important fact in each living being is that every one eventually will die.
There is nothing you are sure to happen to you during the rest of your lifetime except that you will die.
You’re not sure whether you will be here next year or even next week. You are not sure if you will survive tomorrow morning or even the next hour.
Not a human being or any creature have succeeded to avoid death. Whether he was a scientist or a powerful king or a war leader.
So as long as this is the strongest fact in our life. We must take it seriously. If we are going to die anyway. So what’s next?
If there is nothing after, then lets make the most of every moment in our life. Got to be pragmatic about enjoying every second of our life. And that’s a very serious and dangerous decision. Everybody will do his best to enjoy his limited time. Sometimes regardless of others. Regardless of laws or rules if they can avoid them.
Everybody would want to have all what he needs to enjoy life. Money, power, time, health, leisure ..etc.
We will all go for these as aims. Pragmatic as we could be, earth will turn to hell.
We would all turn to ruthless, selfish beasts.
Religions drive us to a different path. There is another life after death. There is judgment. There is heaven & hell..
Now we need to go through every religion to conclude whether its true or false. Whether we should dedicate our lives to it as it demands or not.
The choices are wide. Starting from a no-decision direction to a specific sect of specific religion.
To have a balance for this life, there must be a Day of Judgment. On that day the good people will be rewarded and the evil people will be punished. If one does not believe in such balancing day, this person would be expected to take advantage of his lifetime. If this is our only life, we should all enjoy it as much as we can.