Religion, born of the earth's need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
God requireth not a uniformity of religion.
We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.
Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.