To all those who say religion is just something to fall back on.. I believe because I fall.

Maybe the other religions are tangible, explainable, more believable, even easier to understand or comprehend and I know that Christianity isn't. You can't touch,taste, smell, see or hear it. You can't put it on a table and call it an artifact or part of history in the flesh.You can't show evidence and it's hard to understand but there is this thing called faith which it stands upon.With this faith comes trust which governs our lives and lets us chooe what's right from wrong creating morale. So then comes the most important thing, love.
Maybe we do look to a religion because we are afraid to die, we don't know what happens when you die, it's another unexplainable, intangible thing so it scares us into believing in something. I don't believe in Jesus because I'm afraid to die. I believe in him because I am living, with or without death it's my reality.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever shall believe in him will not perish but live an everlasting life.
For God sent not his son into the world for the world to be condemned but through him they might be saved."-John 3:16
Face it, as an atheist or anything else, you're just as scared to die and afraid to take that step in finding what's right for you. If you don't wake up in the morning you can't go back or look back and say I'm sorry I should have.... So don't put down those who do have a religion, who do have faith because we're not shy to admit life is scary and we can't do it alone.
No one said it would be easy, no one said it would be scary or even understanding but it is simple. You don't have to be perfect, and you don't have to pretend to be perfect, you simply just have to believe. Until then I wish you luck in life, but please, don't knock it until you try it. Until death has stared you in the face and you can prove to me you lived without God, because I have been there and I know I didn't, then don't rattle your excuses of not believing in something at me. Just keep trying to convince yourself although you are human like all of us and need something to hold on to. Whether you can convince yourself of your own emotions, history or future is your own problem but I certainly didn't listen to myself after a while.