Religion: A Dialogue by Arthur Schopenhauer is about the philosophy involved with religion. Schopenhauer turns a critical eye to the topic of God based on his habits of thinking about the world and producing fact-based theories. Excerpt: "Where you have masses of people of crude susceptibilities and clumsy intelligence, sordid in their pursuits and sunk in drudgery, religion provides the only means of proclaiming and making them feel the high import of life. "