Personally, I agree with you that religion does give purpose to our lives and that the author is a bit reductionist in his analysis. However, I found the artic

Personally, I agree with you that religion does give purpose to our lives and that the author is a bit reductionist in his analysis. However, I found the article noteworthy exactly because the author is speaking from a "scientific" or "evidence-based" point of view, and was showing the positives of religious belief.