I agree with Author. Religion is useless unless it raises it's followers to a higher plane of resoning and thoughts.....clear ideas and elegant imagination, and teaches them to interpret the things around. Religion, thus, should naturally urge an individual to pursue thing scientifically, while maintaining the faith that the universe around will become comprehensible that way. That may be what religion really did for ancient sages and philosophers, but today, it's just nonsense and of no use in a logical society. One way to see this is to give example of scientists from 16th century who participated in Renaissance, contributed, in their meagre lifetime, an immense wealth of ideas, theories, designs and art of aesthetic excellence. Most of them beleived in God, Divinity, Religion and even alchemy, but they knew how to keep science and religion in their respective places. All in all, we need to destroy all religions and all Gods and begin our Civilization completely anew....It's time we do that, because we have polluted our ancients' ideas too much....without having any of our own !!!!!!!
