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As a lapsed Anglican ("like falling out of a first-floor window"), my comments on religion — mainly on Christianity and Islam — are those of an outsider. My general attitude is that of an unwilling unbeliever: broadly sympathetic to religious feeling and experience, without ever having had much of either myself.

It seems plain to me in any case that religious feeling is a key component of human nature — though of course, like other components, stronger in some, weaker in others, and absent altogether in a few. There is therefore little point in railing against religion, since, at least until the "posthuman future" arrives, humanity is not going to be other than what it is.