It is often claimed by many ‘pragmatic’ people that man cannot do without some kind of religion and that he is too weak intrinsically to manage his affairs without taking recourse to some imaginary deities. Life, it is contended, is full of loneliness, burdened with problems, failures and disasters, to let man survive on his own. Many are willing to admit that the basic premises of most of the religions are unconvincing. But they are …showed first 75 words of 1815 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1815 total…quibbling may confound matters considerably, it does not prove the existence of a Mountain of Gold, as you will readily admit. The evidence of the mystics is of such a kind. The net result is that the evidence for any kind of religious belief is disputable. The facts seem to show that religion is an illusion, mere wishful thinking. This being the case, it would be the more honest policy to overcome our religious delusions.