I have a concert coming up Sunday-- and lots of rehearsals for it this week.   And yes, it is heavily religious music---though there are at least two good pieces which are not.

So I have very little time for Mudcat below the line right now,.

I don't have to believe a word of what I sing in order to be eternally grateful to organized religion--especially Christianity-- for having inspired such a wealth of sublime music.   And to answer anybody who actually advocated that the world would have been better off without religion, I feel that the loss to choral music and vocal music in general would be a overwhelmingly huge reason to reject that idea. (Among other reasons, of course).

Of course I know I can't expect people who don't sing any of the wonderful variety of religious music that exists to understand this in the slightest.

But that does not diminish the power of this argument in the slightest.