Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.
"Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798)". Translated in "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.
