Epicurus in One Sentence and the Comforts of Materialism

When we are, death is not; when death is, we are not.

Some say people hold to religion because of its comforts.  A superficial way of thinking  given religion's moral demands and  the fears it inspires.  It was precisely such fears for which Epicurean materialism  was prescribed as anodyne.

Materialism has its comforts too.  Will you then say that people believe it because it is comforting?

Materialism has its comforts but it also renders human life meaningless. That goes on the debit side of the balance sheet.