Religion is a big fucking hoax. That's what I'm afraid of. Because you see, if it is, then after you die, you're just...gone. If you take the graph out far enough, the survival rate for everyone drops to 0. It ceases to matter what happened, as everyone you talked to, everything you do, vanishes within a couple decades of your death. I'd rather burn in hell than deal with that. But I'm also too stubborn to change my views out of fear.
I don't see how someone can take comfort in a god, though. If he's out there, he's a major fuckup. I'd rather to be accountable to myself than have some omnipotent being sitting up there weighing my actions against some scale he couldn't be bothered to tell the world clearly, especially the Judeo-Christian one who seems to view blind faith in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, blind faith based almost entirely on what your parents believed, as better than good works.