I admire your honesty, eBlip! But don't you consider it hypocritical to keep that posture all the same?
I agree with you, of course, that the fear of death inspires most religions. The keyword is MOST. It's not as if you and I are the sole two people in the world to realize this fact--and to that effect, there are many religions based on this very realization, whose precepts only aim one toward taking a healthy, well thought-out view of LIFE, (not death) and are rather like systems of psychology!
Indeed, no religion is entirely without this purpose, however mucked-up in dogma it is.
Our problem as inhabitants of this world is that too many of the old religions are blindly passed down, even when they've ceased to be effective.
The question just asked, "Why should anyone try to spread their religion?" owes itself to this fact. For in our world especially religions REALLY ARE spread with no purpose!
But the true purpose of a religion is to make life a happier and more enjoyable thing. And in that case, spreading a religion is just a way of spreading a "happiness-system."
I recommend to anyone fed up with our centuries-old Western religions to take a look at something written by Tarthang Tulku:
Here is a truth entirely free of "fear thinking."
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