I want to believe

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I wonder if things can be turned around by thinking in other ways.

For example, religion mostly describes life as some sort of game, scoring points from "God", to see what result you get. Instead, life is now an experience in itself, without the headache of constant judgement from some unseen dickhead with a rule book. You can craft your own purpose rather than being handed one.

Religion generally makes promises about life being eternal. The sooner you wake up from this, the sooner you realize life is in fact limited and therefor extremely precious.

You can also study all aspects of the universe without having to worry about potential conflicts with dogma. I find everything around us to be astounding and fascinating when viewed as the result of natural processes. If instead I thought some guy had just made it all like on minecraft, I'd think they'd done a terrible job.