“When a religion is adopted in later years the impulse for it is almost wholly emotional rather than rational; proselytising of teenagers and adults typically targets loneliness, confusion, failure, grief, anxiety and depression as opportunities for conversion. The psychological support given by the fellowship thus offered is attributed by the convert to his newly formed relationship with that religion’s deity–or so the sceptical observer of this phenomenon would say.”

— The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism by A. C. Grayling

— The God Argument by A. C. Grayling