I watched the first of the two Richard Dawkins programmes on religion a couple of nights ago, and I have to say, despite my periodic criticism of his one-sided anti-religious tirades, most of what he said about the importance of reason, evidence, the need to test ideas and so forth, didn't come amiss. The value of these things was brought out by the character of most of those he was interviewing, who were their living negation.
Anyway, Dawkins referred in the programme to Bertrand Russell's 'china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit [but]... too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes'. It reminded me of the green goblin in my fridge.
Dawkins didn't engage, however, with the question of whether religion meets any important human needs. Perhaps he will in the second of the two programmes.