Worship and Emotion

[Ravenshire]

... how on earth can anybody worship (a powerful emotion), something that doesn't even exist? Deluded to the core?  God may not be real but the emotions certainly are.

Perhaps the emotional rush is part of what makes something seem real to someone -- even if it's imaginary.  I don't know which comes first, though, the emotion or the belief that something is real, but I've experienced something similar in regard to a few works of fiction.  Despite knowing that something was fiction, I wanted certain characters to be real.

(emphasis is mine)

I get a bigger emotional rush sitting at home watching a Broncos game than I ever got in any church! If the emotional rush is what they're after, they'll have better luck at Six Flags.