Atheists who become Christians

[abaris]

It's the purpose of Christianity and Islam anyway. But if you want to know why Christianity spread so quickly, that's it: immortality. Many religions didn't have any belief in an afterlife: Judaism and most of the pagan religions didn't or at least not in anyway that made the afterlife the point of the religion. Help in this world, not the next, was the original point of religion as far as I can tell.

I was talking about todays Abrahamic religions.

The only old religion believing in a rewarding afterlife was the Egyptian. They had their own version of the judgment day after all and their priests made good money by selling the book of the dead to the believers. Kind of a tourist guide to the judgment hall and a dictionary of how to answer when asked specific questions. Did cost about as much as a scribe made in a year. And scribes were pretty well paid.

So nothing has changed really, when it comes to make people believe in the afterlife.