The highest art is always the most religious and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Yet for my part deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Judaism is much more communal and partly as a consequence of my religious switch I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.
Unhappy let alone angry religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
Offspring the due performance on religious rites faithful service highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself depend on one's wife alone.