Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Religion leaves no room for human complexity.
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.
Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.