Humanity doesn't need to continue believing in hocus pocus pie in the sky religious hogwash and pipe dreams to have hope of everlasting life.
Nor is it necessary to find the fountain of youth or turn off the aging process.
It's only a matter of time until science achieves it. Maybe not decades away, maybe not even centuries, but eventually....
....mankind will achieve eternal life through a transplant of the human brain into a future highly advanced robotic body.
Already the scientific fundmentals for it exist. For example, science has already succeeded in creating a robotic arm that can be practically manipulated by pure thought.
Dolly the sheep was perfectly cloned years ago. They can now recreate certain body parts in a lab.The human genome is now mapped.
Even the Pentagon is investing serious money into researching the possibilities. It's no longer the stuff of pure science fiction.
See this article for example: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2175374/Russian-research-project-offers-immortality-billionaires--transplanting-brains-robot-bodies.html
Yes, it's only the Daily Mail and this Russian entrepreneur is probably wildly optimistic in his visionary opportunism, but the basic science is already there and has already been proven to an extent.
You can throw your Bibles, Books of Mormon, Korans, Baghavad Gita's, etc, out the window. Religion only exists for comfort and giving hope of something beyond our short life-spans.
When science eventually enables eternal life through transplanting the human brain into a cybernetic body, religion will no longer be necessary and die a natural death.
