"If you try to get rid of religion, you aren't going to get rid of religion"

In a recent post "Sacred days for sacred celebrations" I wrote about a couple's attempt at integrating some kind of holiness into their wedding day by chosing a relatively sacrosanct holiday on which to hold their ceremony despite forfeiting a church ceremony.

Here is what Jim Kalb says about getting rid of religion, and its replacement:

If you try to get rid of religion, you aren't going to get rid of religion. Instead, you'll get some scheme of attitude and belief that functions like a religion but pretends to be something else and will probably go off in strange directions because nobody's allowed to think about what it really is. In short, you'll get something rather like the Antichrist.