Not perhaps ideal; but better than the alternatives. And since the clergy of the C.of E. have proved even at this late stage incapable of producing such a synthesis, perhaps the less attention we pay to them, the better.
But the problem of accepting immortality, when it is offered to you, centres round the problem of “self” and “selflessness”. If you want to get on in this world, my experience is that you have to give “self” limited freedom, whilst keeping it on a short rein. To give “self” unlimited freedom, rubs everyone up the wrong way; and you make too many enemies. Yet without a healthy ambition, you will miss opportunities for advancement either for yourself or for your plans, through a too scrupulous desire not to get mired in the evil of a situation you do not fully understand. On the other hand, in your dealings with any God, who is real to your imagination, “self” has no place. So if you think you are furthering God’s purposes in cooperation with Him, whether this is true for you or simply a great fantasy and imagination in your mind, “self” just becomes the steely will necessary to effect what you have in mind. It is not there to advance “your” purposes. As General von Seekt said, “Will without spirit is blind; spirit without will is impotent”. Without “will”, nothing gets done.
Sometimes of course you have to defend your own corner; but my experience is that usually the results are bad, because you have not been true to yourself. And other people see this without difficulty, even if they have no intention of subscribing to your beliefs or habitual conduct. And once people realize you are attempting to be selfless, they will at once try to take advantage of you; and you have to be doubly vigilant not to give away too many opportunities. So in the world of affairs, attempting to cooperate with any real or mythical God, puts you at a considerable disadvantage.
Yet no God would contemplate taking into His confidence anyone who wanted to remain independent of Him. Once you allow Him to get His hands on you, you are his for life. Jesus himself was emphatic about this; once you put your hand to the plough there is no turning back. Or there was his symbolism about building a tower, and being unable to complete it. You want to do your calculations before you commit yourself, and not afterwards. And suppose you are committing yourself to a fantasy? From which there is, so far as you can see, going to be no escape? No wonder sensible people hesitate. You only have to listen to clergymen preaching the modern gospel that “love solves all problems”, to realize that no-one in his senses would subscribe to that doctrine; and how right you would be! It is a suitable gospel only for potential martyrs; and I think I have only ever met one.
In other words, if you want to cut a figure in this world, it probably pays dividends to disparage the idea of immortality, and shut your eyes to any problems the next world might have in store for you until later on in life.