“Religion” Vergote declares, “is a symbolic practice through which believers commemorate and reenact the emergence of the divine force in their lives” (p. 98). The definition implies actual belief in an existing God who interacts with human beings in their own realm of existence. Religion provides an all-encompassing discourse that gives meaning to the complex realities of human existence and of ethical dilemmas. It offers human beings ways of confronting unavoidable suffering, evil, and the enigma of death. Language finds in religious discourse the opportunity to achieve the highest degree of its belief function. It brings forth the Lacanian real, that elusive