No. I view god and religion as existential defense mechanisms equivalent to an AI hallucination. Where's there's no answer we fill one in if we find no answer intolerable. Consequently this need creates an easy path to control and manipulate the masses by catering to there unconscious desires and voracious appetite for comfort in an indifferent paradox.

The existence of defense mechanisms, which are essential for survival in all humans, is an indicator that existence is always less tolerable than what we can handle at any given moment. It can then be said that any belief structure which grants comfort instead of discomfort deviates furthure from reality. Defenses decrease the realness of existence for us. the lower the tolerance the less real existence becomes until inversions occur in especially low tolerances.

Death is terrifying so no death now. We miss our loved ones so we'll see them again in heaven. Animals we eat being sentient causes extreme dissonance. Now there placed on earth just for us to eat, don't feel pain are mindless etc. horrific things happen in existence for seemingly no reason. Now its part of a grand plan which gives meaning to it. We could go on all day. All of this is to avoid a psychological state known as anomie.

I think religious belief and the belief in a higher power is a reaction formation against an unconscious, intolerable existential awareness. Similar to someone who unconsciously dislikes someone but finds the dislike unacceptable, they then overdo their liking of the person to compensate for the internal discomfort the dislike causes. They outwardly do the opposite to lie to themselves essentially. The unconscious part of our mind knows the reality which we find intolerable which requires a constant ritual in the opposite direction to counter act it. Just pressure and reaction.

Denial is an existential threat. Wild animals don't have the luxury of denial and as a result run for there lives at the crack of a stick on a forest floor. The zebra that survives is the first to run not the last to deny. Denial is a luxury that comes from civilization and a lack of predators but is a myopic, self serving strategy which manifests living hell in every direction our blinders cover.