Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. ' It is astonishing, moreover, how many people are unable to understand that 'X is comforting' does not imply 'X is true'.