Pseudo-Philosophy Rant: On being content

I've been spending too much time indoors. Now, there's nothing wrong with that, but I tend to think a lot when I'm indoors. Not that it's a bad thing, but you know, the fact that I could only think while I'm indoors in my own apartment could be disastrous for my university life.

I had this thought recently that religions are promoting the wrong thing. The concept of afterlife as filled with virgins and flowing milk and honey seems a bit hypocritical with the teachings of solitude and abandonment of material things to become one with your God. You'd expect that a religion that teaches a lot about caring for others so that you become close with God to have a heaven that is non-materialistic.

There's something wrong with the entire concept. If a priest is told to uphold a lifetime of good actions and giving to the poor, then why are they promised an eternity showered in gold? If someone spends a whole lifetime in celibacy and abandoning the sinful act, what would he do when faced with thousands of virgins?

He would drown in his lust and thus abandoning the principles that he adopted in the years of his past life.

If heaven is a place where you get to meet God, then it would also be a place where you are eternally content. You can't satisfy people, give us mountains and we'll ask for the sea. Even if a person is sentenced to hell, I'm sure he'd be used to getting burned and resurrected every few seconds. If someone wishes to be happy in the afterlife, he would ask to be eternally content.