@ Sean – look up "Pascal"s Wager". You are making an enormous assumption – that there are only two possible alternatives – the Christian myth, or nothingness. What if there IS a god, and this god has been using religion to weed out the thinkers from the sheep? The thinkers and doubters are rewarded with eternal bliss, while the sheep are roasted forever.
Or, what if there IS a god, but not the Abrahamic god? OOOPS! Guess you backed the wrong team – you should have been praying to Zeus, or Jupiter, or Odin, or Ra, or to a zillion other gods.
Really, you do have a brain, right? Try using it.