A reason why people remain religious

[Mudhammam]

Mozart, there is greatness in the finite existence we endure because of its brevity and the seemingly improbable fact of it, that is, each of our lives hinge on an incomprehensible amount of minute consequences in a Universe unfathomably large and ancient. What you're advocating, and I agree, is the necessity of a higher cause for each person to place their commitment; where atheists tend to differ from believers is that we seek a higher cause that effects the world, here and now, rather than one simply hoped for in another dimension unattainable in this existence. And that we recognize our inability to observe the impacts of our actions after we have passed, there is indeed a greatness and humility to be found in the acceptance of that.