&gt; <i>Ultimately, secular thought (agnosticism and atheism included) is just an inferior product compared to religions.</i><p>No, it really isn&#x27;t. It&#x27;s <i>really</i> strange that you talk of science, then just throw out that &#x27;today we have more suicide and depression&#x27;, when we <i>know</i> we have <i>extremely</i> poor historical records of both those things, particularly depression.<p>Just because it doesn&#x27;t have some canned answers doesn&#x27;t mean secular thought is an inferior product. Secular thought has brought us egalitarianism, for example - civil rights gains are not birthed from religion. It wasn&#x27;t Jesus that brought us feminism, desegregation, or minority voting rights.