Till Theists never tire of painting skepticism and atheism as philosophies of despair and doom. No life after death doesn't mean that one cannot make this life satisfying and meaningful. No standard of absolute morality doesn't mean that we cannot use our intelligence to arrive at moral principles that will create orderly societies in which we can work to make life satisfying and meaningful. Our prisons are filled with people who, if asked, would say that they believe in the god of the Christians, who is presumably the source of the absolute morality that they have all flung down and danced upon.
Nothing is true solely because one wants it to be true.
Neither is anything true because an overwhelming majority wants it to be true. If a man is arrested for murder, his mother undoubtedly wants him to be innocent, but if he isn't innocent, then he isn't innocent no matter how much the mother hopes that he is. Neither would a million people on the mother's side, wishing that her son is innocent, make him innocent if he isn't. This principle is so patently true that anyone should see it, yet millions are apparently unable to see it when the principle is applied to religion. The child's wish for the tooth fairy to be real would in no way make the tooth fairy real.