This assertion is not meant to imply that
religion is either
false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds —
indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which
religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.
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Religion must
indeed be a thing of the heart; but in order to elevate it from the region of subjective caprice and waywardness, and to distinguish between that which is true and
false in
religion, we must appeal to an objective standard.