Making up your own religion? Exploring life for what you feel it's meant? Enjoying life? Even if religion IS fake, not saying it is or isn't, why does that stop life from being great?

Do whatever you want. You're going to die anyway, might as well make the most of it.

If you have all the answers that so many people before you could not find, I'd say you already know it all and have nothing left to do now. I was an Atheist for a while, and then started re-examining my thinking and found I was wrong. Maybe try re-examining your thinking and try to get to a deeper level with your reasoning and see what you come up with.

Don't trust in any religions. Rather have a relationship with the One True God that loves you more than you can imagine and has provided you with a path to get to know Him. Seek & ye shall find :)

Why do you assume that everyone must 'understand' that all religions are fake? Your saying that they are not real does not make them unreal to the believer, just as my saying they are does not make them real to you. Why can't some people be more tolerant of people's choice to believe or not to believe? If a person's belief gives them comfort and makes them strive to be a better person, why should that make them a target for someone else's contempt?

Ultimately death and the prospect of entering into the food chain.

Well the question sounds like it might be written just to provoke people, but I think we should give it the benefit of the doubt and assume that you're having some sort of insight about religion. To say "all religions are fake" could mean "no belief captures the true nature of reality", which I would agree with. But that doesn't mean that religion is without value, it only means that one needs to take beliefs with a bit of salt. The proper purpose of religion is to provide a reliable path for spiritual development -- and that is something that is an essential dimension of being human. Not everyone calls it that, though... but whatever you call it, we need a word which refers to the development of wisdom, compassion, integrity, unconditional love, etc. -- all the most basic human values. I think it's handy to call this "spiritual development", it seems to be the most fitting word. So I would say that if you see the limitations in religions, that's fine, but it doesn't let you "off the hook" for your own spiritual development. If life is going to be something more than meaningless suffering covered over by a desperate quest for security and pleasure, each of us have to take on this quest with great effort and persistence. So what's next in life? You'll find that answer in the mirror in most cases.

There's a fascinating essay on Michael Crichton's website, "Environmentalism as Religion," that points out that some characteristics are so hard-wired into the human psyche that even when they are suppressed, or people talk themselves out of them, they come out some other way. Religion is one of those things, whichis why so many people cross the line from responsible environmentalism to becoming environmentalist fanatics with everything from a creation myth through sin, grace, redemption, resurrection and paradise. Question your major premise. Why should something seemingly so hard-wired into mankind be "fake"? Some religions obviously are fake, and some are downright evil, but others, and I don't mean just my own, are worthy of serious consideration.

You're asking ME? BTW, Christianity isn't a religion.

They are all fake? What makes it fake? I am confused.

Experiencing reality with a more open mind...without predetermined conclusions answering every question before you've given your curiosity a chance to see what's really out there.

What was next in life WITH religion in place? Your purpose in life is to find your purpose; Then with all your heart, apply yourself to it. I wouldnt go as far as to say all religion is fake... but it has given people a lot of fake purpose. Its a shame really. People spend all their time saying "here i am god, i belive in you" instead of searching for, investing in, and applying the gifts they were given.

Are you actually suggesting that all religions are fake, or...?

If that were so, it would be hopeless and meaningless. Jesus did something that religion could never do for you, though. :) -In the Master's service. Thank you and God bless you!

Next in life is figuring out what you truely believe in.

This is, of course, assuming that all Religions are fake. However fake to whom? Fake how? Besides, the true nature of reality is unknowable because we filter everything through our own perceptions. You make your own meaning just as you create your own reality.

A nap, shutting off the alarm clock a few hours later, and going to work in the morning.

Reality :)

life itself is sort of a religion. all religion is fundamentally flaud and to an extent fiction, BUT all these that all these religions talk about in their holy books might have happened, but one has to belive that all these religious texts were written by humans not by angels. there are errors in them but overall you take the good in any religion. ADDICTION IS BAD...it can apply to religion as well. look at the muslims now..... they are addicted...... but fundamentally religion is there THAT AT THE END OF THE DAY YOU NEED TO FEEL that there is SOMETHING BEYOND YOU so you are not afraid to DIE.......

Are you saying that all religions are fake??

not religion i think,denomination is complicated, word religion is from the word rely-legion.group of people who whos life connected to what they believed. we must be connected to the source of life,the needs for man is life and God gives us life through Jesus Christ.so we need to embrace this life.

Life.

Why must you have "something" to replace a colossal yet pathetic pack of lies, superstition and fear-hate-death-machines? Why, instead, can't you turn to what you can see and know and study and understand, instead of some fake promises dreamt up by control-fascists and fear-mongers, who are petrified to death of 6 billion people having real control of their own real lives. Until humans have genuinely free and independent lives & choices, we know not what they could be capable of.

... like Buddha said, "No one person can ever change the truth, but the truth, once learned, can and will change the person."