Do we need God to make sense of life?

Jordan Peterson debates the psychology of religious belief with atheist academic Susan Blackmore.

I wish academics would use their intelligence to simplify things rather than convolute them. All the arguments about religious texts always seem to overcomplicate things for me. In the light of modern knowledge, we're clearly in desperate need of a big update to religion. I wish we could instead argue about the First Cause of the Universe in simpler terms but take into account scientific insights. I understand the profound meaning we can draw from religion but if it's all too hard for most people to understand what's the point? I know life is complicated and confusing but why are religious stories so ambiguous and cryptic?

I'm glad an "equivalent to God" was talked about in the discussion because I would say that God is a name we have given to the infinite positive side of nature relative to an infinite negative. This is simple to understand yet describes the source of our being in science-friendly modern-day terms (infinity being the opposite of absolute nothingness). Hasn't religion always described God as infinite? Surely we could think in these simpler terms to make sense of why there is something rather than nothing, and make sense of life. By emerging out of absolute nothingness "The Infinite" is evolving toward wherever infinite potential leads.