And religion provides us with an ideal figure to be and that gives us the sense of purpose to be the ideal.
Same is the case with the atheist,they also create their own ideals. For instance,Socrates asks us to do self mastery and Friedrich Nietzsche to be an ubermensch.
Death itself may not give you a meaning, the story you tell yourself about your death, before your death, at the time of your death is where the meaning comes from. That's why the concept of religion comes from all the religious talks about the after death.
If we don't have freewill then it means we can do anything because our actions doesn't affect our present or future, as everything is already decided by someone (may be god).
So no freewill = freedom
Technically, unhappy people live more than happy people because their remembering self is more concious. (they remember more past experience than happy people)
We have imperfect cognition of time so we have to deal with the uncertainty and uncertainty only arise because of expectations and that's desire. And desire and fear come hand in hand and as soon fear sets in suffering begins.
Hard times make a man strong and the strong man makes time easy, easy times make a man horrible and the horrible man makes hard times...
And the cycle goes on
If you fear god and b/c you fear god you have to fear nothing else
And if you don't have fear of god than you fear nothing
You would not trade all your fear for one
#thinkaboutit