"No heaven … / no hell below us …/ and no religion too."

For some reason, articles like this one always read better on Sunday morning.

Science and religion: God didn't make man; man made gods, by J. Anderson Thomson and Clare Aukofer (LA Times)

In recent years scientists specializing in the mind have begun to unravel religion's "DNA."

... We can be better as a species if we recognize religion as a man-made construct. We owe it to ourselves to at least consider the real roots of religious belief, so we can deal with life as it is, taking advantage of perhaps our mind's greatest adaptation: our ability to use reason.