Sorry a bit late, am doing nights. I agree that we are not owed a sense of hope. I have not got a religious bone in me.
What I said about hope, really only applies in the poorest of countries. Ones where the average life expectancy is 30 odd.
Those people need something, a fairy tale or not...
Religion is all the bad things people have said on here. The only problem is without it, there is no hope.
People in a really bad way need something to cling onto. With no religion what would it be?