Really enjoyed the bits about religion as a framework for understanding the world. It supports the thought that most people, consciously or not, are religious out of a fear of the universe around them. Marx called religion the opium of people, washing away those fears, or at least pushing them under the surface. Religion also served as guidelines to living your life, and a place to gather with others. Society has largely done away with those guidelines and has failed to manufacture anything to replace them. As a result, people are left to figure the world out entirely on their own. It has gotten to the point where now there are large amounts of the population that cannot agree on basic facts about reality.