Adam S. Miller - Religious Transformation.

The point of religion is to wake up.  "The dream of going to another world is just that: a dream, and probably also a deep sin" (WS 437). 

On Latour's account, the test for religious competence is clear.  "If, when hearing about religion, you direct your attention to the far away, the above, the supernatural, the infinite, the distant, the transcendent, the mysterious, the misty, the sublime, the eternal, chances are that you have not even begun to be sensitive to what religious talk tries to involve you in" (TF 32).  Religion has no interest in selling you insurance or in telling you something you don't already know.  It does not want to teach you or inform you.  Religion wants to change you.  It wants to render you sensitive to the passing worlds alrady hard upon you.  "Information talk is one thing, transformation talk is another" and religion is about the latter, not the former (TF 29).

Adam S. Miller, Speculative Grace, pg. 156