Yes Bill, The deeper idea is that reincarnation soothes the ego by making something up that guards the self constructed concept of self.
We heard Einstein say "Time is only a persistent illusion". Well it sure feels real 'don't it?'
That's how I view the ego. Just like your face, it is not even half of what and who you are. But we all to easily get tricked into believing "of course that's me, I can hear my own thoughts and can taste my food etc..

When Joe felt attacked this what I offered to try and get him to ally his ego's fears;

Ego boundaries make enemies that do not exist Joe. I will now be speaking in psych terms. I don't expect you to get it right away except to say, no one is attacking you, except yourself.

This is all naturally confounding until you have the ah ha moment.

In religion the ego manifests as the Devil. And of course no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else. The ego is the worst confidence trickster we could ever imagine because you don't see it. It's con is "I am you. The ego hides in the last place you would ever look, within itself. It disguises its thoughts as your thoughts it disguises its feelings as your feelings. You think its you.
People who need to protect their own egos knows no bounds, they lie, deny, cheat, steal, kill, do whatever it takes to maintain ego boundaries. People have no clue they are in a kind of prison, they don't know they have an ego, They don't know the distinction.
At first it is hard for the mind to accept there is something beyond itself, there is something of greater value, that there is something greater than itself. There is no such thing as an external enemy, no matter what that voice in your head is telling you, all projection of an enemy is a projection of the ego as an enemy. Your greatest enemy is your own ego, your own ignorance, your own casting of your own enemies. These come from a variety of religious teachings and psychology, not just one dogma or a religion that collects and trains egos.

Finding the ah ha moment is most challenging for a straight line (linear} person to achieve.
Then you will know We are not bigots, we are not the enemy.

So Bill, reincarnation is an overcoat for a chilly ego.