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Essayist Alain de Botton says the supernatural claims of religions are entirely false, but religions have much to teach the secular world.  He steps into the sometimes acrimonious debate between atheists and believers and argues that atheists and agnostics should stop mocking religion. Instead, they should steal from religions the good ideas they have on how we should live and how we should run our communities.  De Botton, whose works have been described as ‘a philosophy of everyday life’, says religion can help us to foster our relationships, to get more out of art, and to overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy.