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I like religion. I'm a practicing Catholic, and even though I falter from my own convictions every day, I find them worth keeping. Shoot me.
Typically, some sort of religious or spiritual belief forces us to answer to ourselves. Call it "promoting order" or "ensuring stability" or whatever you want...I believe in a divinely engineered moral code that helps me become a better person while it improves the people I interact with's quality of life.
The large number of highly intelligent religious people in my life forces me to dismiss the claim that religion is for fools that need to be herded as bunk.
Religion is what you make of it. People that merely see it as an escape from Hell or a promise of Heaven live pretty empty spiritual lives, and probably find it easy to fall away.
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