You are allready blessed with eternal life. No-one on earth has the power to grant or restrict that based upon religious conditions. To believe is sometimes to fail to see that point because a book allready provides an acceptable awnser to cover your conscious. This is perfectly fine when it soothes a man from his worries but needs to be stopped when it turns into a pissingcontest with other religions, or worse.

All religions squelch the mind, some minds tho have not developed a sense to see that as unfit. And in those cases it isn't unfit at all: minds in need of guidance should be given guidance, in whatever form. A church is a good start but using your mind indepently is where it should finish.

Maybe not in this lifetime, then surely in the next.