Religious people are abnormal. As a normal person, I don’t understand how you can believe in a certain version of a religion and maintain that you know better which religion is true than the other believers in their particular religion. Why would these religious people think that they have more right to the claim of what is true? Why don’t the others not have that right? Why are religious people so arrogant? Is arrogance not the ultimate abnormality in a world filled with interpretations? Is religion the last convulsion of a humanity moving out of childhood? Is religion that cozy blanket that has kept you safe for so long? 

But religion is not the only safety blanket, of course; many behaviors in “adulthood” function as safety blankets. Most of our lives, even the normal ones, are a constant longing for and use of childhood carelessness. Growing up is an art that no one has mastered fully yet. Maybe I am wrong, but I have never met or read about a person who did not have some kind of safety blanket, a belief that is not grounded in reality but just a belief.