There is value in retaining religious traditions as vessels for meaning, even for those who do not believe the literal theological claims.

“since we don't have very many vessels that cracked and damaged and sometimes transparent as they are what vessels you have might be worth holding on to”

Religious narratives encapsulate essential truths about human nature and the structure of reality that transcend mere scientific facts.

“It's also the poetic ground that enabled us to identify the notion that you could look up and orient yourself towards the heavens and that there was a Metaphorical relationship between that and positioning yourself properly in life”

Organized religion represents an archaic and harmful set of ideas that should be retired in favor of science and rationality.

“for me religion? emphatically gets placed on the side of bad and old and and worth retiring ideas or ideas worth retiring”