I made this quote up 30 years ago and have been seeing it pop up around here and there.
"I don't want freedom of religion, I want Freedom FROM religion".
I always thought it would make a nice bumper sticker but was too lazy to do it.

It's a ritualized panic about death. Thats what it is, really. Panicked people do and say the craziest shit. I would be more terrified of the idea of there being a place in which I have to continue spending the rest of eternity, conscious. But then again, we know almost nothing about life and or even the universe. That lack of knowledge is our source of the discomfort about death, essentially.
It's tough to admit even to yourself that all you are and all you have worked and striven for will mean nothing in the end but if you can look at the scale large enough you will see that in the end nothing matters and with that knowledge comes freedom.
Even the smallest action has significance in this endless multiverse of ours. Travel back in time and you could profoundly change the future with tiny decisions. If you were to travel back in time millions of years ago and step on a bug, it could change the entire future of humanity. And the further back into the past you go, the bigger the future-changing impact becomes... So even a single insignificant ant will have significantly formed the future, billions of years from now, through his tiny actions.
I would even go as far as to wager that each atom is something without which the universe could not exist if they were not where and what they were supposed to be. Everything in existence is working together towards the common goal of "keeping the game running".
personally if it is all an endless Möbius strip but solid state with zero movement at all firmest in place.
With imagination and or conscious minds the only way to travel it God or Allah or any other name you want to use would just mean one that can envision all of it all of the time. Smaller minds like ours just grab little pieces of it. We forget we know it all and stay in small state small minds for the release of sameness.
Star Trek's Q character had a good episode when a fellow 'Q' wanted to be released from it all due to endlessly suffering from the
"Grand Ennui"
Mike Nesmith has a good song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrWaYMsN0Tgkind of think a lot of God or Allah or "Q" types can relate to it.