I believe any attempts to find a universal "deeper meaning" in the chaos of the universe is just about as sane and useful as trying to find deeper meaning in the arrangement of the symbols in a bowl of lucky charms.
I've met what other people might call gods and monsters, and I know that for all their power, they're just as fallible, just as selfish, just as foolish, and ultimately just as vulnerable as anyone else. I believe that the systems we build - from the ones we create to explain our world to the ones we make to protect ourselves - will ultimately fail. I believe most of our most deeply-held ideologies will seem wildly backwards to people 400 years from now, if there are still people. I believe that a lot of the things we hold to be universal truths are subject to change in an instant, even things like our place in the universe, the laws of physics, the nature of time, the framework of reality.
If there's anything I believe in, it's people. Not a lot of people, but a few of them. People who look at the world and say, yes, the universe is random, and harsh, and violent, and uncaring. And instead of giving up, they say, I'm going to do everything I can to make it a little bit better. I'm going to use what I have to ease suffering, to let some light in the room. And I believe religion would be a lot more useful if it spent any time focusing on that instead of the stupid bullshit it usually concerns itself with.