In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous. — Robert G. Ingersoll. Agnostic, lawyer, politician and orator (1833–1899)
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.