My current view of religion is that it is a "safety blanket" for adults.
Well, I think that is fine. Everyone has to have their own views on life, and after-life, and each is certainly entitled to view it their way. The only thing I don't understand is why you would feel it necessary to bash it. I certainly haven't heard anyone here bashing anyone whom doesn't believe, unless I missed something. I would never try to tell anyone what or how he or she should believe in life. But if you really read what you wrote, you are basically "name calling" those that do believe, which is also their right. You may not have meant it that way at all, just comes over that way.
Why does everything have to have "logic" in order to be? Why do we have to "see" everything to know that it does/can exist? We know air exists, we walk through it all our lives (at least I hope we all continue to) but we don't see it. Oh, we can see smoke IN the air but not the air itself. And before you say that we can "see" air by the molecules it is made up of, we don't "see" that. And what about men before these molecules could be seen? They knew air existed and we needed it for our survival. I can't see emotions, I can't see anger or hate or love. I can see the actions produced by these emotions, but I cannot see them. I can feel them inside myself, but I cannot see them in me. I know they exist and I give them a name: Hate, Love, Anger, Sadness. Before man knew that chemical signals were sent to the brain by different mechanisms of the body to create these "feelings" in us, man knew these feelings existed. I know I love because I feel it inside. I know I believe in a God because I feel it inside. We don't NEED to see or know the source or the existence of feelings to know what is there. We don't NEED to know or see that a higher being is there to know that we feel his existence.
And science? What is science other than the continuing study of things that are constantly changing? How many things known as absolute truths by scientists over the years of scientific study were found out to be proved wrong or much more than they had thought? Go back in your history and look at the "scientific fact" that is now scientific hogwash. For how long was the earth positively flat? Gee, the bumblebee by all standards of science shouldn't be able to fly; yet I see them flying all the time. What scientific fact today will be tomorrow’s hogwash? Does science explain a lot to us? Yes. Is science right on a lot of things? Sure. Does science explain everything to us? No.
Here are facts. A tree is made out of wood. The oceans are full of water and salt. Flowers grow and die, fish swim. Birds fly and now so does man. You and I are alive. We live. Why? Because we are made that way. Because our cells tell our bodies what to do and when and how. Why? Because they are "programmed" to, every cell has its own 'job' and if working properly, does it. Why? Because it does. Who knows? Big mystery. So, if some (many) decide that the beauty and complexity of life is more than just a happenstance, then at least it is a belief. Science certainly cannot tell us WHY we are alive, why we came into existence other than theories or hypothesis of why. And, as I said, today's theories and hypothesis are tomorrow’s errors.
No, theology is not the end all of life and neither is science. But the blend of both helps us to understand from where we have come and where we hope to go. We are developing in our knowledge; we will always be developing in it, which will not end till man ends.
You speak of people who believe in Theology as if they are hiding under it as a blanket. No, not hiding. How many people of science were also men of theology? Life is not one or the other, does not have to be. To me it is a wonderful blend. Theology gives me the basis and science unravels and explains many of the mysteries that man is, and forever will be, insatiable over.
This is just my 2 cents so take it as such.