Gaining knowledge individually is a truly religious process.
Increased knowledge is increased religiousness.
It improves life conditions for everybody, dignifying and diversifying man's life in so many aspects, that to describe as a religious act the development of each man's rational and critical potentialities and capabilities by learning new skills and insights is the only adequate way of describing it. Besides, there is a logical rule that says a statement is correct if the opposite is false. The above statement says, in other words, that the more knowledgeable, the more religious a person is. Both are neoreligious statements. These would be old-religious statements, of which the first is not openly admitted so not to offend the believers, but the second is indeed in conformity with the ancient Adam and Eve myth forbidding to eat from the fruit of knowledge.