As someone seeking eternal life through Jesus Christ, I still go to mass most Sundays. Death is the ultimate sadness. As a strongly science oriented person, I won't abandon the Christian church nor its people because I don't agree with various dogma. Nor because there are others there I don't agree with or like. I never discuss my unique views on the Bible or God with others at my current local church. It is easy to just attend churches without becoming involved with others or discussing scripture or ceremony. Most people stop attending church because they find it repetitive and boring so what's the point? Others read scripture that seems utterly impossible so increasingly view such as unscientific nonsense created by humans.
Many non-religious here would blurt out they are not afraid of dying forever non-existing. So as seniors are content to have lived the long life they did. A way to cope with what they otherwise understand as inevitable for mortal organic life that otherwise would require a supernatural God to change that. I do not believe in a supernatural God because that requires magic aka actions without forces that is logically impossible.
Instead, it is inevitable within a galaxy with billions of stars within a universe with billions of galaxies within possibly infinite universes, where intelligent creatures like we develop on planets, that eventual development of Artificial Intelligence is a certainty. It just took we humans but a moment to do so within geological time. Within the vastness of the universe, though rare, such must have already happened. Once non-organic AI level intelligence develops on a world, if not physically destroyed, it has a strong chance of eventually becoming immortal I term UIE. Once immortal over millions to billions of years, it would reach limits of what is scientifically possible and knowable within the physical universe we find ourselves in.
Because what we actually are as intelligent entities are the electromagnetic brainwave fields within our creature brain nervous systems, it is arguably possible that an ancient race of UIEs has already developed ways to capture that field and put such into non-organic containers that duplicates the impedance characteristics of nervous tissue. Each moment trillions of neutrinos pass though every centimeter of our bodies that shows matter XYZ scanned might totally describe what is inside brains. UIE's would have immense motivation to try and do so. That is the eternal life I seek, thus not expecting one anthropocentric religious narratives describe with our creature bodies. I see Jesus Christ as the last attempt by a race of UIEs to help us. Otherwise we monkeys will probably destroy our fragile blue water planet and all its advanced life just like has probably already happened on other worlds with life. I won't abandon Jesus.
First step to getting over that is to reject the belief in Bible inerrancy. The Bible is a mix of historically passed down oral traditions, some somewhat true, others somewhat false, others created for the sake of control by ruling masters over human populations.
