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I don't use my religion to justify anything bad.
Bad things happen, and they always will.

Personally on my political stance, I am liberal. I do NOT support the war at all, I think it was started for reasons that should not have caused it. (But that's a completely separate topic.) I do not use my religion to justify war, on second thought my religion does not support war. War is killing, no human has any right to take another humans life.

Not all religions believe in "heaven." And, I am not afraid of living in a world where things can't be explained by god, because there are a hell of a lot of things on this Earth, or universe for that matter, that are completely unexplainable and probably always will be unexplainable.

Believing in some sort of spiritual "being(s)" or God(s) do comfort me because I feel like there really is something out there and that there is something more to the Earth than material/tangible items.

I most certainly do NOT use my religion to justify corrupt government officials. Humans are humans, some are just much much worse than others.

As similar as religions may be, there will always be a vast amount of ever changing opinions.

Purpose of God....easy way of explaining what we don't understand. Purpose of religion.....A quest to separate stupid people from intellegent people. The stupid allow themselves to be brainwashed by the clergy. The intellegent ask questions about the many contradictions that the Bible possesses.

Religion is a simple and deep philosophical answer to all the things science can never answer. I see no need why science and religion clash, and in fact see them as two ways to do the same thing.

Many atheists claim that science disproves religion, but in fact, it just proves that people tend to interpret religion incorrectly. Remember, religion should not be about history, but philosophy. It should be the way you see the world, and how you behave in it, but not anything more or less. The only reason science and religion tend to clash is because people try putting one into the other's territory.
To put it simple, atheism is closed minded and not really a great practice on it's own, and while religion is inherently open minded, it attracts closed minded people too easily. It seems that the only group that has it right anymore are the agnostics.

Religion is used my the masses as a mental crutch. Some people simply can't handle the pains of everyday life, ergo they find someone who can alleviate their stress and pain. People lie to themselves all of the time, it's really quite easy, I did it for years. Religiously zealous people simply tell themselves "My mom is a drug addict and my dad is a drunk, but I'll make it through because I have Jesus on my side." Why do you think depressive people are in such a hurry to convert? My dad didn't become a Christian until he literally was on the border of serious clinic depression. Why are people with cancer in such a hurry to convert? They want to find the cure, or they want to have stability after they die. Everyone uses a different mental crutch, everyone has one. Some people use religion, I use books, movies, stories and knowledge. It gives me my comfort. In closing religion is just like a safety blanket.

Oh, and I'm sorry if I offend anyone, I don't mean to at all.

Absolutely! I believe that false hope, though within itself false, it is still valid. It gets us through the day, it does the job of normal hope. But isn't all hope just what we wish for the future, ergo the product of our minds?

In my opinion:

To hope is to desire something that may or may not happen.

If you think and believe in life deeply everything has "probable cause". Hope is self-created though, that's all I'm saying.