Angela,

I think you have found what (I believe) religion is all about. I think it is about that comfort, family, etc. And it is the way to help us through and teach us about life and death and morals.

I think that is why I have, though, my problems with those religions that seem so self-conscious about their own religion that they have to have me belief exactly as I do.

And get involved in political discourse to try to make it so.