I love this!! Hell Insurance!!!
I remember the gotcha question at the end of the preacher's message. "If you were to die tonight, where would you spend eternity?"

I often wondered why fear was used by these so-called messengers of GAWD!!

Since any concept of there being a God/s is, imo, pure fiction at best then, ergo, there is NO truth in fiction and fiction is there only for the purposes of entertainment so this 'purpose' of God must then be there purely for its entertainment value.
But it escapes me as to what, exact, entertainment value there is in a God with a purpose that promises Life after Death but can never deliver on such a promise.

I think people can't handle the idea that their personal identity will one day literally no longer exist. So, all manner of made up, hoped for, feel good explanations have been created to deny the fact of temporary existence.

Most people don't fear death.. They fear the manner of their death or the pain involved in dying...
Correction: maybe not most..

Good point

Yes but how much of that fear of death is artificial anyway, a fear stoked up by religion, with stories of hell etc. . It was I suspect a small fear once, but they managed to align it with the even bigger fear, fear of the unknown so that it was yet another unknown they could pose as answering.

Since god does not exist, his true purpose is anything that the criminals need an accomplice for.

I understood from a source I once read that the concept of heaven and eternal life within Judaism was adopted from contact with the Persian religion Zoroastrianism. Before these concept became a part of Judaism, the Hebrews believed the soul went to Sheol where it resided for a while before sort of disappearing.

If that is religion's/God's true purpose, it doesn't seem to be working. The religious are just as afraid of death as anyone else - maybe more so.

Since god is not real, I don't think it has a purpose. However, religion has many purposes usually based on ignorance, greed, and arrogance.

Again with purpose, the most important use of God (God has no purpose) is to for men to claim authority over other people.
It's nothing more than a tool for mans misrule over man.
That's why Trump wanted a picture of him holding up the ultimate magic charm, the Bible, then the dolt claimed that his opponent would hurt religion, hurt God. Never has there been a more transparent indication of what religion has always been about.

In my opinion, the true purpose of god(s) was to explain natural phenomenon to primitive, ignorant humans. All the rest has been added through time as necessary to accomplish specific goals of the ruling and controlling classes.