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"But religion does fill certain holes in people's minds, some of which are even worth filling."
Are they? There is such a thing as a Fruitful Void. God is used as a placeholder to stop questioning and abolish uncertainty. Those are very valuable absences.
It's not a God-shaped hole, it's a hole-shaped God.
I think I'm going to have to quote that from time to time
...very good point.
The use of "some of which" suggests that he considers most of the holes to be Fruitful Voids, merely not all of them.