I'm sure it wouldn't amuse him, but I ended up here in part due to reading some of Richard Dawkin's books. The one of his driving ideas that genes don't care about good or bad, only useful or harmful, can be applied to ideas, to memes. It doesn't matter if religion is true or not, it matters if it is useful or harmful. And I'm at the point now where I view it as a useful falsehood, a valuable set of memes.

God damn, I never thought of Dawkins that way (The God Delusion was one of my first nonfiction books after hitting my teens) -- but it's a great point and kind of describes where I'm at.