What we are doing is to set out a series of religious alternatives. Any developed religious system has an internal logic, which seems obvious to its adherents. This internal logic can to some extent be seen by those who are prepared to investigate it from the inside with sympathy. We must of course remember that living religions are far more complex than the bare bones of their logical systems. One more caution should be given.
Religion has no necessary connection with life after death.
Chapter 11 discusses the hereafter and the different views which are held. Religion does require faith in meaning, but it does not need faith in personal survival. This is why such religions as Nazism, Communism and Humanism can deny the possibility of a future for the individual, but still have great faith in the race or humanity as a whole. In Buddhism there is reincarnation for those who do not attain Nirvana, but the ultimate goal has no future for the individual as a person. It is only in Theism that the future of the individual as a person is important.