A magician performs a trick on stage, an illusion. Many of the audience are emotionally rapt. They fool themselves into believing that illusion is in fact reality in order to enjoy the show. Similarly do we lose ourselves in things such as television, whose picture is just a picture, and not reality. And then a fellow imagines that his lover is something immensely valuable - when all she is in reality is just a bag full of blood, mucous, bones, and fat. Again, our dreams at night can be disturbingly real, but they are no more real than all our other experiences.
Religionists and their ilk are expert dreamers, and expert believers. To justify themselves they plead "but people need a God," and they desperately implore "you need to believe in something." Indeed they do need their beliefs - in the same way that a drug addict needs his drug. They justify in the same way that a drug addict justifies, and ignore consequences just as skillfully.
No, our world has too many dreamers, and too many believers in dreams. It is time to wake up!
I urge you to first seek the truth; penetrate through the illusions of the everyday - then have faith in what you discover. This is the most excruciatingly demanding task a person can ever take on. Be warned, it is no folly!