Despite of what you may or not believe in, how would you react upon dying and discovering that what you believed in on earth was a fallacy? Let's say your God turned out to be an arrogant, self-righteous, racist chicken. Obviously you'd likely be startled by the news but then what would you do? Bow to the chicken? Rebel against him. Start an uprising. Continue praising your original source of belief? Curious.
My arguably Godless religious beliefs
If I found out they were false, my brain, assuming that it still works the way it once did, would
implode from the amount of reconfiguration of perception that I would have to start. Process overload.
At first I would go over the events of my life, frame by frame, trying to account in some other way for the things I previously credited to belief. I would wonder about all of the different crossroads I might have arrived at - how differently my
entire life would have unfolded - if I'd decided to believe less, or more, or differently, or none at all.
At worst: I would feel cheated and hollow and angry and depressed, even though I was never promised anything. I would want to go back and tell everyone, anyone, just to save them from experiencing the same thing.
At best: Would I regret everything that I did? Some, yes. But overall? No. I did what I felt I had to do to live as what I thought was a better person. I made my experience on earth more emotionally meaningful by living for something that resonated with who I was while there. The growth, enjoyment, and bonds I experienced are still the same, their effect is still the same. This shouldn't detract from them.
I would be in awe at the power of the unguided universe. Stunned to definitively learn that life - complex as it is - is still no more than chemical roulette. I would still want to go back and tell everyone, but I would also think it's better for them to find out on their own.
A God-centered religious belief
Lol, an omniscient, omnipotent chicken. Wow. Wow, wow. I would try to ask a ton of questions, firstly those pertaining as to why it was
primates who inherited the earth, and why they were permitted for so long to exploit en masse those truly made in His/Her image (some of those chicken farms are just so bad).
Secondly, why a chicken would be so strongly invested in the spiritual well-being of these same primates.
If image is indeed metaphorical (for sentience, among other things) instead of physical (species), I would want to know what other forms Chicken could take, and if there were any special reason for this one being it at this moment.
I wouldn't rebel, though. Maybe I could learn something. Maybe this last thing would be enough for me to just say fuck it. Lol. Absurdity.
If the Chicken were bearable even with the personality flaws, I would stay (shocked and probably on the slow journey to insanity). If the Chicken were altogether insufferable, I'd just ask to have my soul deleted or something.