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What if the religious system does not pan out?

What if it's not valid?

What if it's not viable?

Is that what you're saying?

Or satisfactory or whatever.

All right.

There are two very quick issues to comment there.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am arguing here for the necessity of religion

for happiness in the human being. I am not arguing at this point for a specific religion,

number one. Number two, I'm not arguing that all religion is valid.

Number three, I am not here to prove to you that religion is valid.

I'm here to make one case and one case only.

I do not believe that a happy life is obtainable without what religion gives.

Religion may in fact be an absolute human creation with in varying degrees of nonsense.

I don't believe that. But that's not this course.

This course is not on the truth of religiosity.

This course is on happiness,

and I am arguing to you that in my lifetime,

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