Religion is inescapable. Belief in religion as a falsehood is merely another form of religion masquerading as intellectual honesty/rationalism. Rationalism all too often leads us off of a cliff, as boriquagato has well shown because it is not informed by the lessons of the heart, which knows no logic other than what grows from its own intuitive feelings. Therefore impugning religion as a falsehood becomes yet another unverified belief system -- ipso facto, a religion. If you believe life is sacred, if you believe the natural order is sacred, if you believe that there is a moral order, are you required to provide empirical proof for this belief, or does it have some legitimacy to the extent that it is heartfelt? Not saying that all the "logical" deductions that ramify from such belief are necessarily correct, but only that there is inside our human wisdom an ability to perceive the sacred. Keats said it like this: "Beauty is truth and truth beauty; That is all you know on earth, and all ye need to know." In a movie I saw a small boy said to a man, "We need to protect the earth because God gave it to us." The man says, "Well young, man, I don't know about that. Maybe what you mean is we need to respect nature, respect the natural order." The boy responds, "That's what I just said."