The idea of “salvation” is a load of nonsense. As is the idea that all of our problems are erased when we die and we become sustained in a Heavenly paradise. We carry our problems with us after death. This has caused me to take my issues into my own hands and correct them. Because we’ll all have to at some point. I no longer walk around feeling like I’m “a bad sinner.”
I was pretty much forced down a similar line of thought, and similar conclusions, when I realised that only reincarnation could properly explain my current-life situation.
I'd spent years juggling basically two alternate world-views. One, the straight materialist, we are a product of heredity and environment. Two, the rather incomprehensible Christian ideas which were part of my cultural heritage. Nether of them could explain the here and now. It was the need to come to terms with the right here, right now existence that made reincarnation the only thing which made sense.
In one move, it displaced both the materialist and religious ideas, both of them were a kind of attempt at papering over the cracks. We each have our own journey through life, so these things won't affect all of us in the same way. But for me, the time came when papering over the cracks and trying to hold together crumbling world-view was no longer sustainable. The narrative, the story in which we describe our relationship with this world and with eternity, that narrative shifted.