Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. .
Messiahs are mammals.
On the other hand, among turkeys, the chromosomal situation is such that all products of virgin birth are males. The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. Any belief in Absolutes, whether the absolute validity of moral commandments, of authority of revelation, of inner certitudes, or of divine inspiration, erects a formidable barrier against progress and the responsibility of improvement, moral, rational, and religious. To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. I just believe in one fewer god than you do.