What sort of deific being demands:

[Moostache]

30. This is my major contention with any religion preaching about eternity...

There is no such thing as "eternal life" in anything resembling a physical form.

I will grant that each of us lives on beyond our physical death in the hearts and minds of the people we interact with...both good AND bad. Those we love and who love us in return are shaped by that interaction forever...sometimes in large ways, sometimes in tiny, almost imperceptible ways. The same applies to those we injure or harm. These actions, reactions and memories chaotically interact in our local sliver of the universe to create a meta organism we call "homo sapiens" now. Go back far enough on the time line of existence and imperceptibly homo sapiens rises from the organisms that came before it on this planet...at some point in the distant past, there was a first life form. It did not look anything like a man or a woman or biped or a mammal. It had no complex nervous system or multi-lobed brain. But it was what eventually became the species that today threatens to destroy the ecology that sustains complex life.

We won't eliminate all life...bacteria have been kicking our ass collectively for 4 billion years and I think they'll find the plethora of food in the form of our decaying carcasses to be a pleasant respite in the aeons old war it fights against extinction. Life is, however, finite unless homo sapiens or its successors determine a way to free themselves from 2 things - the temporal problem of stars consuming their fuel and exploding and the inertial problem of an expanding universe eventually reaching a steady state equilibrium where everything has dispersed to nothing.

That is reality. Everything else religions make up - to tell stories of comfort and to assuage fears - don't really mean a thing. There is no "heaven" or "hell". These diametrically opposed ideas are the product of the feeble mind of man to describe the unknowable and make small the cosmos so as to not confront his own insignificance. Our physical forms, bodies of flesh and blood and chemicals and gasses, all dissipate and return to nature once our very short, very finite lives run their course. Pretending that is not true because it makes someone feel better may be palliative care for the now, but it is damaging to the future...