Is There a Caricature of Religion?

There's no escaping a religious framework. There's no way out of it and if you eliminate it say as a consequence of rational criticism what you inevitably produce is its replacement by forms of religion that are much less sophisticated. You know if I look back to my Catholic upbringing actually acknowledging your own capacity for sin is at the heart of Catholicism. That's why we have the confessional. Well that's far from trivial. It's unbelievably not trivial because it was so common like a common part of Catholicism it can be passed over without notice. When you criticize a structure like that out of existence you don't criticize the questions that gave rise to it out of existence. Those are religious questions. The