Hey, who needs religion anyway?

We are also left with the painful thought that so many of the great achievements of our civilisation, the buildings, the music, the poetry, are based upon a falsehood.

The mind naturally rebels at this idea.

Some comfort may, however, be gleaned in the thought that their original inspiration does not have to be true for great art to remain great art.

We already accept that it can spring from false religions, as in the case of the marvels of Islamic architecture.