I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content - a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father. I recognized that my continuing resistance to theories of an afterlife or of heavenly residents was no justification for giving up on the music, buildings, prayers, rituals, feasts, shrines, pilgrimages, communal meals and illustrated manuscripts of the faiths. Alain De Botton
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In this saying, he highlights the fact that people should not give up on their faith because of a feeling of something being wrong or because they do not believe in a material world.

Source: Religion For Atheists: A Nonbelievers Guide To The Uses Of Religion

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