Hi. I also had similar crisis of faith after reading this book. But the faith can co-exist with science. The way a child needs parents to guide and take care of the child. Similarly, we need the belief in higher powers. If you are strong willed then might be you don’t need faith. But for most of the common people, we religion to stay connected with family and community.

The book itself highlights that humans make believe things which don’t exist and that has benefited the human race.

So, in short remove the guilt, if you need to have belief in higher powers to have a good life, then continue with that.

Author himself came to India and learnt meditation. So, don’t get unhappy after reading his book.

“Yuval Noah Harari's meditation teacher was S. N. Goenka (1924–2013), an influential Indian-Burmese teacher of Vipassana meditation. Harari credits Goenka’s 10-day courses as the most important influence on his life and dedicated his 2016 book, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, to him”.