People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

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Irving Kristol (January 22 1920 – September 18 2009) was an American columnist journalist and writer who was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservatism". As the founder editor and contributor to various magazines he played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of the last half-century; after his death he was described by The Daily Telegraph as being "perhaps the most consequential public intellectual of the latter half of the 20th century".