I kind of agree wit your point and disagree, it would all depend on your deeper view of the subject in question.
To speak about things like this is so hard cause we are so quick to judge each other, forgetting to keep our glasses/minds half empty and always ready to receive new information and let old one go if necessary. I'm not trying to say that's what you're doing at all, only stating how hard it is to picture it depending on how different our lives and ways of thinking may be :)

I for one do believe in the god in the context of a force which is everything.
I don't believe in God as a ruler judging the choices in my life.
I Believe God to be just as much a part of me as I'm a part of it, I believe it simply to be the Prana/Chi/Kundalini/Lifeforce, from where all life springs.

I believe in the Bible in the context that it's a book written ages ago like a history book. I also believe the words of the bible are colored just like the Sutras of Buddha, The journeys of Krishna etc. And that we should read between the line.
it doesn't matter whether or not Jesus walked on water or turned water into wine, just as little as it matters whether lotus flowers where grown under Siddhartha's every footstep he took right after his birth etc.
Somethings we should leave to be myth and legend without questioning whether they are true or not, and instead listen to the message given, which to me seems to be very similar from both Jesus and Siddhartha. And none of them actually asked people to worship them, they simply asked people to follow their way = To live like them.
And to be even more honest, they hardly even asked that, they wanted people to find for themselves.

If you're familiar with Dharma Sangha (Buddha boy, the guy who meditated without food and water for 6 years in Nepal, if not there's a Discovery documentary on him you can find on youtube, just search for Buddha boy) what he seems to have done is to most people in the west a miracle if something. While to the Dzogchen masters of Sikkim, Nepal, Bhutan, ladakh and Tibet he is just an example of pure devotional power.

the Discovery documentary tries hard to debunk him (that's what we want to do here in the west, debunk stuff, which many times can be good), but without any real success.
Now after watching this documentary I would like you to search for some of his speeches on youtube. Actually I can find them both for you (but u need to add dots cause I'm a newbie :P

Discovery documentary: www youtube com/watch?v=v29clGMWU84

Short doc after hsi 6 years + an interview: www youtube com /watch?v=X8OzRlPvfWk&feature=player_embedded

(Please remember the language barrier, and what may sound like overly "holy" words to us is in fact everyday words in Pali/Sanskrit. Dharma = teaching, way, path.
Also there are no outer Gods in Buddhism (and probably not in original pre-Hinduism too?) All the deities in Vajrayana and mayahana are simply symbols of your inner deeper nature. Like Buddha means nothing more than Awake. Buddhahood = Awakened one etc.
Tara is a Bodhisattva and symbol of the female awaken energy inherent in us all.
Avalokitesvara is the bodhisattva symol of our limitless inherent compassion etc etc).


What I want to show by this is that it doesn't matter how authentic his meditation was or not, and how much we can debunk it. What matters is what he has to say now. And for me when truly listening to him, I can't other then share some tears cause the teachings he are giving are so simple and pure, yet so hard to take to heart. And in many interviews I've seen with him I can almost see his heartache of not being able to just give the person he is speaking to his view without trying to use words, cause in history we can see that when a master tell words it can lead to 2 things, a few liberated or followers of a righteous path , then a few who get hubris and false-enlightenment and who soon see how they can control people and by so turning the devotion of laypeople into a weapon against themselves...

Anyway, he is no saint, he is as much you and me, as he is Gandhi and Gaddafi, The difference is his choices and priorities, the road he is walking.

So after this wall of text for a small subject, all I can say is I agree.
I do believe in afterlife though, my NDE kind of make me have to. I dont believe We will survive, but I believe the essence of what is Us will survive.
When I was "beyond", I could still see "my" body. But I fell nothing for it, it was like 2% of everything, and the other 98% felt so much more familiar.

Well, as soon as I returned here it all escaped me like a dream, but the memories are still there, and those I will never forget, even though they may transform during every time I try to remember I hope to keep the essence of the unexplainable.
So I am sure consciousness lives on, but our ego dies, so it all depends on how much you have released yourself from your ego before death, which in my case (obviously after all this text) isn't very much at all...


(sigh, I'm someone who say I try to follow a Zen way, and this is how much I write to answer a simple statement?? :P)