Religious faith to me, is a cop-out, a way for weak people to have every hardship explained away in a convenient manner, for them to be excused all sorts of prejudices, a way of absolving themselves for all manner of behaviour. Its for people that cannot face up to the fact that they are meaningless, their lives are meaningless and that when they die, thats it - nothing.

Religious types always use the same excuse that faith cannot be explained, and that God cannot be proved to exist or not exist, and that there must be more to life (why?). But lack of proof either way is not reason to believe in something.

It all comes back to ego and arrogance. That's all religion essentially is.