I'd like to extend my hearty support of the ideas expressed by Mariam Cohen in her FRONTLINE article (Summer, 2003). There is a long history within psychoanalysis, originating with Freud himself, that has assumed an intrinsic opposition between the scientific nature of psychoanalytic inquiry and the nature of religious belief. It is our profession's manifestation of an old philosophical dualism that has posited an opposition between fact and value that itself goes back at least to Hume's famous dictum that one can never infer an “ought” from an “is.” From the vantage point that runs from Hume through Freud and onto the logical positivists, religion and ethics have been seen as simply emotional sanctioned preferences or beliefs. Science, and for Freud, the science of psychoanalysis, alone can provide us with access to what “is.” Religion is always a matter of belief, science a matter of fact, and never can the twain meet. An excellent summary of the current state of this