Critical thinker, skeptical about atheism.

[KevinM1]

And so we will always have religion it seems to me, since the alternative is a despair,
even if its veiled in a kind of "positive denial", that everything is OK with the world, despite it being completely meaningless and empty, seems like an oxymoron to me.

So we'll always have religion because people are weak?

We'll always have religion because religion tells people they're weak, and their only hope is the religion that tells them they're weak.