My theory on this, is that people like Christianity, and other religions for that matter, because of Terror Management Theory. It's hard for them to understand our point of view on dying, because in TMT, people have to balance the terror of death with the biological will to survive. People who suffer so greatly that death becomes the better option, they even wish it, are likely experiencing so much pain that it overcomes this natural terror. Religion, culture, and belief systems provide a sort of "immortality", whether literally through belief in the afterlife, or figuratively through passing on beliefs or making a name for themselves. Hell, I want to die and I'm still terrified of it. If I wasn't, likely would've CTBd a long time ago. As for the suffering in the world, I guess religion provides them the only way to make sense of it, otherwise it would become to overwhelming and hopeless for them. It is my personal belief, that people believe what is easiest for them to believe. Some people prefer to not have pain, so it is easier to believe what comforts them. For me, believing and seeing how fked up the world is and that we're all doomed to die, isn't comforting but it makes the most sense and eases my cognitive dissonance. Hoping in the supernatural is too painful for me, and trying to have faith in it w/t hard evidence makes me feel insane. So, i prefer hopeless sanity over hopeful insanity.
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