Socialism is the immortality of atheists.
Corollary: the machine is the God of atheists.
As I continue to insist, the existence of something best called God, and the existence of the soul after bodily death, are properly scientific questions. And self evidently, evaluating Christian (or any other) scripture is a stupid way to go about it. Reject all prior concepts. Test what can be tested. That has not yet been done within mainstream science, although people like Gary Schwartz and Dean Radin have shown such work will consistently yield positive results.
Why not replicate good work which has the capacity of expanding our visions of what it means to be human? Hubris and stupidity are the answers, but they are not good answers.