"Religions that help people overcome thier fear of change are doing good work."

"Which is exactly what Pat Robertson thinks he's doing. "

What on earth makes you think that? He's not helping people overcome their fear of change. He's whipping them up using their fear of change as a touchstone, and getting rich doing it. If he helped people overcome their fear of change he'd lose his meal ticket. He doesn't want to remove their fear of change but exacerbate it. Fear is his stock-in-trade.

"The world would be a better place if people would simply deal with reality. "

And how do you propose to help them do that? Reality sucks for a lot of people. Simply telling them, "Deal with reality!" isn't going to help them do so. Go tell some 18yo single mother to "deal with reality". Go tell some 54yo man who hasn't found a job in a year of looking to "deal with reality."

People turn to religion because it helps them deal with reality. Atheism can offer nothing to take its place.