Why people are religious

[Angrboda]

That is your way of defending yourself against the truth.  To hold onto the lie is simpler.

It seems doing away with all beliefs and search of a greater path and guidance is simplest of all but is very lazy way to go about the issue. This is what it seems to me at least.

A Buddhist once told me that he had been searching for secular answers and one day realized that he had to wake up and "stop masturbating" on useless subjects. I guess it's all a matter of perspective whether what you think you are doing is worthwhile. Calling not searching for those things lazy is just a personal expression of what you value. Another might consider it masturbation. The point is, it's not necessarily valuable simply because you are doing something rather than nothing. Sometimes the nothing is what you should be doing.