Has religion ever brought you happeniness?

[ComradeMeow]

Growing up religion never brought me happiness or any sense of well being. Maybe when I was about 4-7 years of age but nothing incredible that would make me appreciate the religion. The topics of religions were always filled with hatred and disgust that it never appeal to me significantly and I always felt distant from them. For example homosexuals, people other faiths and especially atheists were all groups of humans that I was instinctively taught to hate yet I didn't have the emotional investment to hate anybody as a child despite what I was taught. 
I guess the primary factor for this is that my religious role model was my step-mother who was never a genuine or honest person and lacked the most basic elements of human decency or common knowledge. So I was significantly more intelligent than she was at a very young age and never took anything I was taught by her to heart. 

In short I never felt happy with my religion since I took the time to understand people and appreciate them and I could never reconcile basic parts of it with reality. Why are dinosaurs not mentioned in the bible if the world is 10,000 years old, how could Jonah be swallowed by a fish, why do miracles not happen now, and how can atheist reject the "evidence" of god so easily?

Did you religion bring you hope, peace, misery or did it make you confused like I did?