One thing that religion or other spiritual ways can offer is an experience which can't be explained by science or previous worldly experiences. From my observations, if the experience is profound enough or long lasting enough, even intelligent people sometimes throw all their other logic out the window and begin to accept the Bible, Koran, Gita etc. and or their teacher as infallible and you can get people saying and believing the world is only 5 or 6 thousand years old and other rubbish.
For myself the experience can be very real, the rest of it is mostly delusion.
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