A simplistic notion of God is no longer tenable. After all, I'm just a little microbe on a piece of cheese in the junkyard of infinity. The questions remain. The anxiety has only increased. Nobody wants to die.
Nobody wants to lose their identity.
I think we need to look at the whole issue from a deeper level of questioning. The fact is though that when we do that our science begins to validate the idea of an underlying intelligence. Science begins to validate that within each of us there is at least something that is not subject to mortality. To explain, you go into detail about the physiology of neurons and synapses, how the brain works. It might or it might not.