If you study hotel management, you can host many hundreds of guests in a highly efficient manner. If you study computer programming, you can write software that will make people s lives easier. You can also support your family. Similarly, people study psychology because of its practical value in solving people's life-dilemmas. The way forward for religion is once again to reassert its practical value in giving people what they seek most, namely, happy lives suffused with security, inspiration, and direction.
Most people have the wrong idea of religion.
They perceive it only as a means by which to establish a relationship with G-d, and in an age characterised by its atheism and agnosticism, that does not really seem to be very important to the man on the street. But this is only one side of religion. The other is that religion is the most highly developed science of human potential and human living. An ancient Jewish aphorism declares that the difference between the wise and clever man is that the clever man can extricate himself from a situation into which the wise man would never have got himself into in the first place. Ours is a clever generation, not a wise one.