I couldn't say it better if I wanted..., so in stead, I'll quote a piece of literature I've recently read that I think is some seriously kick-ass brilliant writing, to the point, representing exactly how I think about a subject of religion.


" It is as yet undetermined what it means to be human, because every facet of our culture- and even our biology itself- remains open to innovation and insight.
We do not know what we will be in a thousand years from now- or indeed that we will be, given the lethal absurdity of our beliefs- but whatever changes await us, one thing seems unlikely to change: as long as experience endures, the difference between happiness and suffering will remain our paramount concern.
We will therefore want to understand those processes- biochemical, behavioral, ethical, political, economic and spiritual- that account for this difference.
We do not have anything yet like a final understanding of such processes, but we know enough to rule out many false understandings. Indeed, we know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know that we will die. Clearly it must be possible to live ethically- with a genuine concern for the happiness of other sentient beings- without presuming to know things about which we are patently ignorant. Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person you will pass in the street today, is going to die.
Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of his friends and family.
All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?

We are bound to one another. The fact that our ethical intuitions must, in some way, supervene upon our biology does not make ethical truths reducible to biological ones. We are the final judges of what is good, just as we remain the final judges of what is logical. And on neither front has our conversation with one another reached an end.

There need be no scheme of rewards and punishments transcending this life to justify our moral intuitions or to render them effective in guiding our behavior in the world. The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. the only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and faith, which is surely the devil's masterpiece.

Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worth of the name.
The consciousness that animates us is itself central to this mystery and the ground for any experience we might wish to call "spiritual".
No myths need be embraced for us to commune with the profundity of our circumstance.
No personal God need be worshiped for us to live in awe at the beauty and immensity of creation.
No tribal fiction need be rehearsed for us to realize, one fine day, that we do, in fact, love our neighbors, that our happiness is inextricable from their own, and that our interdependence demands that people everywhere be given the opportunity to flourish.

The days of our religious identities are clearly numbered. Whether the days of civilization itself are numbered would seem to depend, rather too much, on how soon we realize that. "

( Sam Harris, "The end of faith" )