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“On an experiential level, we can’t say a religion is not true. If you believe in it, it stops there: okay, fine, it’s religion. If people say it’s real, in one sense, it’s real. In and of itself, ‘God’ essentially has the power to make you happy, so to speak, but only to the extent that an SUV does, because we construct meaning…But pound for pound, God, I think, is better than an SUV.”