Huh. That is such a simplistic way of viewing religion. I think you’re right in a sense—that it may very well threaten religions by providing an alternative for a key reason people become religious. However, I think most religious people I know (I’m not one so I am guessing at their reasoning) would object to this, saying that there is a lot more to religion than that, and that if the person is in it only to go to heaven, they’re being superficial and not really “getting” it. For that reason, I think they’d say that they do not categorize their religion as a religion because it promises to save your soul, and they’d probably also not categorize cryonics that way either.
Huh. That is such a simplistic way of viewing religion. I think you’re right in a sense—that it may very well threaten religions by providing an alternative for a key reason people become religious. However, I think most religious people I know (I’m not one so I am guessing at their reasoning) would object to this, saying that there is a lot more to religion than that, and that if the person is in it only to go to heaven, they’re being superficial and not really “getting” it. For that reason, I think they’d say that they do not categorize their religion as a religion because it promises to save your soul, and they’d probably also not categorize cryonics that way either.
Indeed there is much more to religion than saving your soul, but that’s a major point in Christian and Muslim preaching.