The sad fact is that I know as much about the afterlife as Ruck, OCF, L.C., Pope Benedict, Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggert, Ayatollah Khomeni, Mullah McKinney, Marty Luther, Rabbi Maimonides, Brigham Young, or any other religious figure you want to throw out. And they know as much as I do. Which is NOTHING. So just do your best while you're here and worry about what happens next when your gone. It'll all work itself out.
This sounds EXACTLY like me 10 years ago. Precisely. Then the so-called pushy christians (my girlfriend at the time and a couple good friends) politely introduced me to the amazing evidence validating the Bible and after a year of investigating pretty deeply (I'm a show me the proof kind of guy), I went from that viewpoint to being 100% certain Jesus was real and I wanted to follow him. There are a lot of people like me with the same story, who are thankful for the people who may have seemed slightly intrusive or pushy years ago. It no doubt encourages me to "spread the good news" myself today. But as JSF touched on some, there is no question there have been millions of people going about this the wrong way and/or completely missing the central themes of God's teaching...most notably the myth of salvation thru good works and not thru belief in Christ.
Good topic, all thanks to Turner Gil. I'm happy we have people who can carry on discussion of sensitive topics without any messy blow ups or anything.