Certain death.

Recently, I spotted something ridiculous on the internet (Hah, thats new)...

"If you are an Atheist, believe that religion is ignorance, and are 100% proud of it, put this in your blog."

When faced with certain death, will you stare back into the eyes of your conquerer, tall and proud, and to the very last second, die without the thought of God in your mind? Will you not seek the religious comfort of an afterlife, but instead face the cold and calculating secularism that is Atheism?

Your last thoughts will not be on of your networks, your money, your sciences, but on what happens after. When you're faced with losing everything secular, you're forced to think about what you have spiritually.

Humans are, by nature, greedy. We always seek to posses something, despite our best efforts to remain generous. There is hardly a man on the earth that will dispense of all his earthly possessions so readily, and those would do so are almost always highly religious.
Religion in itself is a possession. Because of the amazing growth of a middle class in America and many "developed" nations, many individuals posses enough objects to feel that they have no need for a religion.

When alone, with no worldly possessions, they will desperately cast around for something to own. When on your deathbed, everything worldly is gone and meaningless. Spiritualism gives us something to hold onto after we lose our last possession; our lives.

In the past, this has pushed us towards religion. Peasants and wanderers, who owned little more than what they could carry on their backs, wanted something to call their own, and created religion, a god they could turn to in the event of tragedy, and a set of rights and wrongs through which they attempted to control their own human nature.