In the Jewish religion there is no belief in an after life. Jews believe this is it. I’ve just finished Micho Kaku’s exquisite book The God Equation. Kaku says:“the key feature of any theory of everything is likely to be its symmetry. But where does this symmetry come from? This symmetry would be a by-product of deep mathematical truths. But where does mathematics come from. On this question, the theory of everything is again silent. The universe is a remarkably beautiful, ordered, and simple place. I find it utterly staggering that all the known laws of the physical universe can be summarized on a single sheet of paper (in mathematical formulas). Given the brevity of this sheet of paper, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that this was all planned in advance, that its elegant design shows the hand of a cosmic designer. To me, this is the strongest argument for the existence of God.” That is the God I would tend to believe in - one without any dogma, one not described in any religious books, one that does not need the intervention of priests one that is perhaps pure mathematics!