its significance in your life. You see, denying God is hard on the soul. Why? Because of the feeling that comes with rejection. When you reject God, you reject the most cherished being in our civilization. Religion is soft on the soul, and is therapeutic too. From the singing of hymns, praying to let off steam, and sharing each other's testimonies of answered prayers. Religion gives us comfort and eases our soul when we are troubled. And these are the benefits that denying God could not provide. Another is that there is no more sublime source of values in life than God. Yes, there are failings in religion, and I agree there are instances when human beings have created gods according to their images. But you see , faith in God enables us to cherish life in a more fulfilling way. In God we see the models of the ideals of human life and relationship . God teaches us that love, instead of lust or selfishness, should be the basis of our relationship . "But it wasn't lust, I did it all in love," Elise thought. In fact , most religions teach us to be kind and compassionate to one another. The cruelties we see in history are not because of religion itself. The root of these is outside religion, usually human injustice. Religion merely becomes a means for people to anchor their hopes while they're fighting for injustices inflicted upon them. Some people stereotype Islam as a terrorist religion.