One of the two mistakes most entrenched in the modern sense, is to see religion as something founded in exclusively subjective facts, without any intellectual relevance. Thus it would be reduced to unfounded beliefs or mere interior sentiment, confining it, therefore, to the dominion of the irrational. In religion one does not have to think, learn or know. It is necessary to say, however, that such a mistaken concept has its historical and social causes and also it is not only our enemies, but also persons that consider themselves sincerely religious, however, they believe that religiosity is itself: a flight from reality to a world of fantasy, an exaltation of sentimentalism in detriment of rationality.
Effectively if religion has some thing to see with truth, it cannot be reduced to sentiment nor to fantasy. In fact, fantasy does not have a tie with truth, for it is also not felt, nor understood. The authenticity is the object of comprehension, and does not feel nor imagine. It is Christ who teaches that religious experience is the practice of truth: “Know the truth and the truth will make you free.” (John 8:32)
Prof Felipe Aquino