If you dont believe in God, how can you expect to understand how believers believe? Your explanation of how believers believe is fundamentally wrong.

In this world we know we will face tribulation, persecution, and extermination for the love of His name. We believe and therefore we act (at least I do). Without faith, all actions are devoid of purpose. The desire to be free is not what drives people in pursuit of faith. It is faith what becomes the driver for people in pursuit of freedom.

Freedom on its own is void and empty, couple Freedom with Faith, and now the picture is complete. Faith without freedom is self sustaining. However, it is our faith that drives us to freedom. Faith emboldens us to act, not to ask that God that He would fix everything for us, but to aks Him that he would be with us in our journey to fix everything according to His will.