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My views on religion are mainly rooted in rational reason. It is ironic that growing up in a Catholic family, going to Sunday School, and spending grades 7-12 in a Catholic High School that I would turn out to be an atheist.
In my numerous discussions with deeply and midly religious folks, the root of their faith is from as noted above, fear, and as a crutch. Many people cannot grasp the idea that their lives have no meaning and are just "dust in the wind". The fear of death also permeates in religious folk because they use religion to blind themselves to what actually happens when they die.
It is a much less worrisome idea that when you die your soul will ascend into a blissful heaven and meet your maker, or you will have 72 virgins at your footsteps rather than your body decomposes and your life as you know it will cease to exist will the circle of life continues on without you.
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Brian Griffin: Ah, if my memory serves me, this is the physics department.
Chris Griffin: That would explain all the gravity.
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