Religion keeps one’s mind in a puerile state, which causes anxiety.

Predicting an eternal hell in which laws of nature do not work. This keeps the mind immature and causes anxiety.
The human body is supposed to grow old, mature, then death is not so bad.
And fire burns something, that thing disappears.
That is the natural order and it keeps the mind sane.

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BlueSkyKing · M

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

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