I appreciate you trying to be cordial and even trying to inspire me. It will be very difficult for me to overcome the following.

I don't see logically nor mathematically how any evidence of outcomes in this life can be evidence of an afterlife.

Do you deny the scripture? It says only 144,000 will be saved during the Tribulation. Or if the 144,000 is not literal then the Bible is great ambiguous hogwash subject to any interpretation a person desires.

The lady in the desert is saved because she was blameless. Who amongst us is blameless?

Seems to me you like the filipinos where I am, think of all the good things they can get from God, but ignore the harsh realities of the punishment God will mete out to most people.

I am a person who can handle a fair amount of pain, but probably not as much pain as these natives in the Philippines can handle. I was a competitive long distance runner in high school (sub-35 for 10K, sub 4:30 mile), so I am accustomed to accepting pain over long period of time. I've always asked to be sewed without pain killers. I played American football competitively, even played without a helmet in pickup games and played through a game with a severely broken nose.

I know since late May 2012 what is feels like to be disemboweled without pain medication for 3 days nonstop. And I doubt my medical case was as severe as it can be. I suspect many have no comprehension what horror it would be to have that occur for perpetuity. The Bible makes no definitive statement as to how to classify precisely who will receive that punishment and who will not. You choose to feel all giddy about the part of the Bible you like, and I assume ignore the parts you don't like.

I make that assumption because it appears you are smiling about the tradeoff of an uncertain hope for better afterlife, for having to carry the risk of a horrific afterlife. Given that risk-reward offer, I'd rather no afterlife at all.

I think one of the theories about why collective religions turn so violent (hey the Inquisition is not fiction), is because their happy delusion turns to fear and disillusionment when the reality hits that their hope isn't unassailable.

People who are in happy delusion are perhaps the ones to fear the most when the shit hits the fan. Then again some Christians would work very selflessly during a crisis, so maybe those mass manias aren't representative of most of the religious.