If it was really just that you wouldn't end up with christianity, it'd be much more soft

If religious is a coping mechanism which works, that a super terror makes a more robust coping mechanism. The greater the terror, the stronger the religious response, and the greater the feelings of invulnerabilty. It's a feedback loop. Once you start it, it feeds on itself.

The people that strike me as less afraid of death are the non religious people

Thinking of religion as simply a coping mechanism is too one dimensional imo

Of course non religious people are not afraid of death, if they were they would be more religious. This is what the theory predicts.

Atheism is relatively new. The comforts of modern life make people less afraid, less consciousness of death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_and_coping_with_trauma

So people are afraid of death, so they believe in a system in which they can end up at a fate worse than death?

Not only them but everyone they know

Seems to add a lot of stress about death

Not for the the believers.

Yes it does

If you believe you are saved.

Book of revelations tell me otherwise

Jesus is a harsh judge

Are you telling me that Jesus does not save who believe in Him?

Not only by believing

This is pretty contradictory.

You gotta follow Him and His teachings.

So is your theory about it being a coping mechanism

"He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned."

Right, and rich people don't enter heaven

Even if they believe

I will take the Gospels over Revelations.

Take the easy route in otherwords

Easy route?

Gospels are more central and came first.

Yes, merely believing and thinking you're done is the easy route

The issue is that belief is something like an observation. Whilst using that belief for more is what saves you.

Also, fuck. Ignore me.

My typing is being very slow

I'm not ignoring you.

Like, you can't be an active rapist, murderer, paedophile, sodomite, animal-abuser and go to heaven. All because you believed.

Also, rich people CAN get into heaven. https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/can-a-rich-person-get-to-heaven

''The saying was a response to a young rich man who had asked Jesus what he needed to do in order to inherit eternal life. Jesus replied that he should keep the commandments, to which the man stated he had done. Jesus responded, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." The young man became sad and was unwilling to do this. Jesus then spoke this response, leaving his disciples astonished.''

You're meant to fight against your sin, believing that those sins are wrong and such is not enough. Although I know we all conciously sin still, but you know.

Anyway, religion is still offering a pathway to immortal life, that's the main point for the theory to work.

That's the natural assumpition of the human mind.

And hell, which non religious people don't need to worry about

We already discussed this.

Threat of death comes first.