Religion/god is just wishful thinking.

[Tonus]

IMO, these theists, deists and pagans alike know well, especially the apologies, that religion, the belief in a god/s is farfetched but, they wish it wasn't so. It is obvious from their efforts debating their claim of god/s and religion, the emotional responses of why it "should" be true though, they can not provide any proof. It is more than filling a void and having some kind of moral ground and meaning to life but, rather their ambition to live beyond the grave. All religious people, I believe, have this great fear of death. The idea of a finite life scares the bejesus out of them and they refuse to accept it. Because of this life threatened issue that they have, they make it their priority to cling to this idea of god/s and the religions they create around said idea to give them hope, hope of a happy ever after, never ending life.

I believed in it because I thought it was real. No other reason, really. The perks (eternal life in paradise) were great, but it wasn't a case of wanting to believe it because the perks were so nice. I just believed because I'd been raised to believe. "It is because it is" simply happens to be a weak foundation, and in time I realized that it wasn't real.

In many ways I still wish it was real. Mostly because of how much I love animals and biology. There is a certain sadness to knowing I won't ever have a Bengal Tiger as a pet and be able to scratch him behind the ears without risking the loss of an arm. Or be part of the first group of humans to colonize Saturn (humor me). But wanting stuff to be true isn't a very productive way to go through life. It just serves as a distraction. So I put those things aside and live the life that is within my reach.